The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Clearly show has returned to the heritage-mentioned Carlton Gardens and Royal Exhibition Making from Wednesday 30th March to Sunday 3rd April 2022.
The highly-coveted pageant will unite plant and flower lovers with its bespoke floral and landscape models, academic talks from industry elites, fingers-on workshops, and a catalogue of the most recent and biggest gardening solutions.
To get the low-down on the highlighted show gardens, we spoke to 3 of the landscape designers and asked for the best 3 trends evident in their backyard types.
Christian Jenkins (Christian Jenkins Landscape Style and design)
Following everyone’s time in lockdown, a substantial resurgence in amusement at dwelling is again. So Christian determined to decide to consist of each an outside kitchen and a seated hearth put area, established among a significant lagoon and out of doors home.


Christian Jenkins


Christian Jenkins
Christian’s top tendencies in “Inner Quiet”:
- Wellness gardens: a area intended for the person to replicate and a location they can recharge and join.
- Drinking water options: large lagoon-style capabilities in the backyard garden generate that instant tranquillity, reflection, motion and sound.
- Tropical influenced gardens: They function hand in hand with a wellness-influenced back garden – the rich daring foliage, drought and wind tolerance and suitability for Victoria’s local weather. This garden model is not for every person.
Ian Firth (Warners Nurseries)


Ian Firth


Ian Firth
Warners Nurseries has been affiliated with bringing gardening to Victorians considering the fact that the initial Melbourne Yard 7 days in 1925 and at just about every MIFGS since. This back garden, “More than Satisfies the Eye”, highlights the diversity of plantings ideal for Victorian Gardens and exhibits the range of layout prospects obtainable. It delivers vegetation that WR Warner was increasing in 1914 alongside one another with the latest’ trends’ in modern day back garden Style.
Ian’s top traits in “Extra than Fulfills the Eye”:
- Ginkgo biloba ‘Piedmont Pillar: “The dwelling fossil” is a species of tree indigenous to China. It is the last living species in the buy Ginkgoales, which 1st appeared about 290 million yrs back. It also happens to be a spectacular deciduous tree with vivid autumn foliage.
- Laurus Nobilis’ Miles Decision: “A Bay for all Seasons” – The bay hedge is 1 of the most functional screening crops obtainable. Hardy, drought, and frost tolerant with deep environmentally friendly foliage. It kinds the backbone of our backyard.
- The Edible Yard: The image of sustainability. From the salvaged supplies made use of to assemble the paling fence and wall to the very nature of the house-developed foodstuff, this segment of our backyard, ‘More than Satisfies the Eye’ captures our sustainable ethos.
Inge Jabara (Inge Jabara Landscapes)


Inge Jabara


Inge Jabara
The a few top traits in “Granum Flore”:
- Corten metal (rusty metal) is again for garden characteristic components. For a several decades now, it’s been all about powder-coated black metal. Now it can be flicking again to the great outdated Corten Metal hero.
- Cobblestone pavers, but not just for a common seem. In our back garden this calendar year, we have applied Italian porphyry cobblestones from RMS Traders for a modern-day contact. These cobblestones have a fantastic variation of normal colors, like a pure river mattress.
- Very simple block planting – as a result of essential options we have only used somewhere around ten plant species to generate a tender and very simple seem. Crops in wheat colors with tender textures have been utilised. It can be all about producing tranquillity and small routine maintenance at dwelling. Also, a extra essential element about basic block planting is that they have to have much less routine maintenance and chemicals mainly because they emulate what the purely natural landscape is already accomplishing.