The awards were presented at the AILDM annual dinner held at the Royal Sydney Motor Yacht Club. A beautiful glass trophy designed by Catherine Stewart, Charlotte Webb and Lisa Ginns was presented to the prize winners.
Allan Correy, patron of AILDM, who has been hampered but not the least cowered by a stroke last year, which deprived him of his sight, presented the Design Awards. His speech read by Charlotte Webb spoke of how far AILDM had come over the last ten years.
The winners were announced by Graham Fletcher(HeadJudge)and Allan Correy.
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AILDM National Landscape Design Awards (PDF 830KB)
STORY AND PHOTOS CATHERINE STEWART FAILDM, MHMA
With two enticing plant fairs on outside Sydney last weekend and only one weekend day available, it was a very tough call to choose which one to see. So what to do but go to both? It was an exhausting day but well-worth the trouble and the travel.
What makes a good plant fair? First for me is obviously the range of goods on sale but the plant knowledge of the vendors comes a close second and it must all be tied up with good organisation or the day is spoilt.
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Fair Go (PDF 490 Kb)
STORY HELEN THOMPSON MAILDM
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL
Late March was Botanica exhibition time again at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, so I took myself and my daughter along to the Lion Gate Lodge off Mrs Macquarie’s Road for a morning’s meander around over 100 illustrations and paintings produced by a total of 58 botanical artists based in NSW and the ACT.
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Botanica 2007 (PDF 356 Kb)
STORY MARION TYREE MAILDM, MAIH
Colour is one of the basic elements of landscape design. It goes hand in hand with line, form, scale and texture. Part of the use of colour is to give balance and focus to the design. Colour also draws the eye towards an object. Placement of plants, their flower and foliage colours can be used to enhance the garden’s proportion and balance. Because of its bold stand out and look-at-me effect, red in the landscape creates a focal point.
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Simply Red (PDF 829 Kb)
WISTERIA GARDEN
Location: Queens Park, Sydney
The Design Brief was to: update the garden and replace tired looking surfaces and pathways, create a planting style that provided a cool outlook with strong green backdrops and flower display and improve the access from the rear of the house to the rear laneway.
This garden is a pretty, much loved family garden. The new entertaining area is located in a sunny corner of the garden while the lawn area is a cooler space when the family wishes to retreat to the shade on hot days. A wide pathway divides the two areas, with planting softening the edges of the path.
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AILDM Designs – Secret Gardens of Sydney (PDF 257Kb)
DIG: DESIGN IDEAS GARDENS
STAINLESS STEEL CURVED WATER FEATURE
Design Brief
For this building on the water’s edge at Napoleon Street, San Souci, the Architect, Anthony Antoniou briefed Andrew Davies dig: design ideas gardens, on the necessity for a central feature, a compliment of all natural elements and forms surrounding the building. There was a need to bring to the foyer area a magnifi cent piece of sculpture to be visible not only as an entrance statement, but also throughout the entire house through side windows. The water feature design required the overcoming of various visual challenges, such as two protruding downpipes, and the framing of major view cones by an ugly roof line in the distance.
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AILDM Designs – DIG (362 KB)
STORY AND PHOTOS CATHERINE STEWART FAILDM, MHMA
Living in a part of Sydney with many heritage houses and gardens, I enjoy a morning walk past the old sandstone walls, elaborate metal gates and delicious fragrances that emanate from the many old shrub borders.
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Death of the Mixed Shrubbery (PDF 1.78 MB)
STORY AND PHOTOS JIM FOGARTY HON. FELLOW AILDM
Last December I had the pleasure of being involved as a designer at the fi rst Singapore Garden Festival. The idea behind the show was to hand pick ‘Best of Show’ designers from around the world.
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Singapore Garden Festival 2006 (PDF 997 KB)
STYLISH COURTYARD Location: Glebe, Sydney
The apartment has two separate courtyard spaces, both with a very different feel and appeal. The brief called for a smart, sophisticated design taking into account that both courtyard spaces are viewed from every room within the apartment.
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AILDM Designs 28 – Secret Gardens of Sydney (PDF 513 KB)
“MINI GIRRAWEEN IN THE GAP!”
My client is a busy executive who wanted her back garden re designed. I was to use existing plants where possible and create for her a sanctuary with simple lines and colour where she could relax and unwind. ‘A garden like Girraween National Park’. It was important for the garden to be low maintenance and water wise.
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AILDM Designs – Branat Designs (PDF 820 KB)
