South Australia Award Winning Garden
Presenter: Kim Syrus
Episode: 19
1st of September 2007
Every year the Landscape Association of South Australia awards the best garden designs. This year’s winner of the prestigious judges’ award went to a garden in Malvern.
Entering past the lush Maraya hedge, the first thing that strikes you about the garden is its depth; it has not been crowded out with garden beds, dividing fences or hedges. The long linear area combines, lawn, outdoor dining area and a pool, and still has that lovely feeling of space.
The landscape designer responsible for designing such a wonderful garden is Beryl Bredon.
Kim: As a landscape designer where do you begin with a new garden?
Beryl: You have to establish a relationship with a client that is the most important thing. There is a sense of trust, because you are coming in and you are basically taking over their life for a few weeks.
Kim: How do you combine need to make a garden look fantastic and be practical for kids?
Beryl: In this garden in particular there is a big generous space so I was able to incorporate swings and there is often a trampoline on the lawn. There are three girls that live in the house and they really enjoy the garden. In most gardens if I am able too I like to have a piece of grass where the kids can kick a ball or play bocce or play cricket, or something like that.
Kim: Are there any design tips that you can give the home gardener wanting to update their garden?
Beryl: Consider the location, beach or suburbia, or in the hills where the soil conditions are completely different to the plains, in the hills the soil is more acidic so it requires a different plant selection.
A low picket fence in between you and the neighbours makes the back yard look a lot bigger then it really is. So if you get a long well with your neighbours a “shared” garden is a concept well worth considering.
Clever planting can make a narrow garden bed took a lot deeper. Using tiers of different colour and texture hedging plants you can create the illusion of depth.
Limiting the number of plant varieties you use and planting multiples of them helps a small area feel much bigger. Avoid lots of different colours as well. A single colour theme can work brilliantly.
It is great exploring different gardens, even better when they are award winners. You always come away with plenty of ideas and inspiration of things to try in your garden.
Beryl Bredon Landscape Design
39 Maesbury Avenue, Kensington 5068
Ph/Fax: 8361 3702 Mobile: 0411 694 215
Email: bbredon@hotmail.com
Episode: 19
1st of September 2007
Every year the Landscape Association of South Australia awards the best garden designs. This year’s winner of the prestigious judges’ award went to a garden in Malvern.
Entering past the lush Maraya hedge, the first thing that strikes you about the garden is its depth; it has not been crowded out with garden beds, dividing fences or hedges. The long linear area combines, lawn, outdoor dining area and a pool, and still has that lovely feeling of space.
The landscape designer responsible for designing such a wonderful garden is Beryl Bredon.
Kim: As a landscape designer where do you begin with a new garden?
Beryl: You have to establish a relationship with a client that is the most important thing. There is a sense of trust, because you are coming in and you are basically taking over their life for a few weeks.
Kim: How do you combine need to make a garden look fantastic and be practical for kids?
Beryl: In this garden in particular there is a big generous space so I was able to incorporate swings and there is often a trampoline on the lawn. There are three girls that live in the house and they really enjoy the garden. In most gardens if I am able too I like to have a piece of grass where the kids can kick a ball or play bocce or play cricket, or something like that.
Kim: Are there any design tips that you can give the home gardener wanting to update their garden?
Beryl: Consider the location, beach or suburbia, or in the hills where the soil conditions are completely different to the plains, in the hills the soil is more acidic so it requires a different plant selection.
A low picket fence in between you and the neighbours makes the back yard look a lot bigger then it really is. So if you get a long well with your neighbours a “shared” garden is a concept well worth considering.
Clever planting can make a narrow garden bed took a lot deeper. Using tiers of different colour and texture hedging plants you can create the illusion of depth.
Limiting the number of plant varieties you use and planting multiples of them helps a small area feel much bigger. Avoid lots of different colours as well. A single colour theme can work brilliantly.
It is great exploring different gardens, even better when they are award winners. You always come away with plenty of ideas and inspiration of things to try in your garden.
Beryl Bredon Landscape Design
39 Maesbury Avenue, Kensington 5068
Ph/Fax: 8361 3702 Mobile: 0411 694 215
Email: bbredon@hotmail.com
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