Open Garden Day 2009
Beaumaris Gardens Changing with the Climate
Sunday 25 October 2009
This wonderful community event occured in the suburb of Beaumaris, Victoria.
Six unique gardens were on show providing insight into how to maintain your garden through the ongoing harsh weather conditions
The gardens featured this year were:
3 Reid Street is a modern, open and low maintenance garden with sculptural elements inspired by the owner's love of Bali. There are black bamboo stands which are a great contrast to the silver birch and have been accentuated by the placement of the decks throughout the garden.
17 Burgess Street is inspired by a Moroccan garden, with purple as the predominant flower colour against a background of burnt orange and interesting pots. It has many distinct spaces and lovely surprises around every corner.
4 Burgess Street is a large beautifully established garden which has survived disease, drought and loss over the last twelve years while also incorporating new plants. The owner has created a lush romantic garden after trialling many plants and discovering the ones which survive best. This is a real “gardener’s garden”, with only grey water used from the three tanks onsite.
13 Mary Street features a large vegetable patch in the back. The owner is a horticulturalist and propagates interesting plants for his own garden and elsewhere. The front garden has layers of unusual plants including a tea plant and coffee bush. There is also a display of indigenous plants on the lowest level partly camouflaging the tank.
21 Mary Street will be the refreshment garden for guests. It has a brand new barbecue area surrounded by an architecturally designed garden which needs minimum care and is very drought tolerant. There is beautiful old pin oak which dominates the whole front garden.
20 Summerhill Road is a large formal garden with a long narrow pond, tall cypress hedges, sculptural features and a beautiful barbecue area. Designed with the help of landscape architect Jamie Clapham, it has the best of the formal structure yet is softened with drought tolerant plantings – with a mixture of England meets the Australian sun as a theme.
