Blooming And Bold: Garden Show fever

Blooming and Bold

Without the buzzards and bees

Where would we all bee?

In an outdoor room

Searching for shrubs and trees ...

A blog by Nicolle Kuna, author, Green Spin (or) Promoting the Green Message (2012)

A blog about sustainable landscaping and some eco-humour and eco-creativity which helps open up audience receptivity.

Inside this blog we look at everything that is encroaching in to our natural urban landscapes –outdoor rooms (errchkem), weeds, nutrients, and the way these affect our rivers, ground-water and general environment. It's easy to forget that all our eco-systems are interconnected. The first few months of the blog are reflections on the benefits of gardens vs constructed backyards (a la the outdoor room phenomenon). More nature in our midst is a blessed thing! There’s a bit of art to add extra colour and gardenesque inspiration.

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Nicolle and her fellow-workers do site visits from inner Melbourne out to northern suburbs, and can help with all the issues that crop up (pardon the err ... pun) with gardens, as with the wider landscape:

eg. plant recommendations, landscape materials to use (life cycle analysis, inputs, outputs, waste and recycling aspects), fertilisers to avoid, how everything we do affects local habitats, etcetera. Workshops can be arranged, to suit the needs of the group.

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What’s orange and black, homeless

and likes

to pounce?

A hopping mad Xmas beetle

in its new outdoor room.

Proper attribution for above garden design goes to

Andrew Jones, artist and designer.

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Thursday, 29 March 2012

Garden Show fever

The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show kicked off today with a real bang. Actually there was an air of triumphance about it.

Cactuses growing inside dessert dishes - Yay, Ross

Lots of examples of sustainability and gardening exultation. The possums had been dive bombing and having a good masticate by the looks of things on our Sustainable Gardening Australia silverbeet, beetroot and chard (bio-diversity themed) display. Fantastic garden walls vegetated doubling as rain-water tanks, and tonnes of vertical gardens sprouting with herbs and flowers. The promenade with outdoor sculpture was really inspiring.

Actually I feel really bad as one of our study mates asked us for help with his entry as a finalist in the Student Category of the Show, (see top 4 photo images) but low and behold, despite most of us being too busy to help, he won the Gold Medal. Top stuff, Ross Uebergang. I always called Ross 'Mighty Multi-Media Man' as Ross' work always stood out with his incredible 3-dimensional designs, now realised here in real 3D.

Have been a bit busy these last few weeks to post anything on this blog, finalising my book - Green Spin - Promoting the Green Message, and the cover is finally coming along, thanks to a wonderful artist friend.