CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW Fleming’s and Trailfinders Australian Garden, Presented By Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW Fleming’s and Trailfinders Australian Garden, Presented By Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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CONTENTS 03-12 THE ARTIST
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13-34 THE EXHIBITION
35-48 THE PLANTS
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the artist
"MY WORK IS INSP ARCHITECTURE, PA TEXTURES, THAT A ALSO FUNCTIONA SCULPTURE AND A RATHER, WE LOO COMPOSITION AS A 05
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JAMIE DURIE
is a horticulturalist and international award-winning landscape designer, and founder and Director of Durie Design
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He is the author of 9 best-selling books (100 Gardens, Jamie Durie's The Outdoor Room, Outside, The Source Book Editions 1 and 2, Inspired, Outdoor Kids, The Outdoor Room and Patio—Garden Design and Inspiration, founder and Editorial Director of The Outdoor Room magazine, and is a successful television host and producer. A committed environmentalist and pioneer of 'The Outdoor Room' concept, Jamie has changed the face of landscape design, inspiring a whole new generation to rediscover their garden.
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orn in Manly, northern Sydney, Jamie spent most of his childhood in the mining town of Tom Price in north Western Australia. Like most Australians, he loves the outdoors and designs spaces that recognise the crucial role nature plays in nurturing our wellbeing. Jamie draws inspiration from the natural form, including the vast natural beauty and drama of the Australian landscape, extensive international travel and his passion for Eastern culture and lifestyle through his Sri Lankan heritage. He successfully combines these elements to create his own unique style and approach to garden design.
Undoubtedly one of Australia's most successful exports and recognisable talents, Jamie has featured in over thirty television shows worldwide. In Australia, he's hosted many top-rating programs, including The Outdoor Room, Australia's Best Backyards, Backyard Blitz—for which he received the Logie award for Most Popular Male Talent, as well as six consecutive Logie awards for Most Popular Lifestyle Program—The Block, Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice, and most recently he was a host and judge on Top Design. In the USA, Jamie's show The Outdoor Room, which launched on HGTV in 2010, is now in its fourth season of production.
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He also hosts White Room Challenge, HGTV Dream Home, HGTV Green Home, HGTV'd, Bang for Your Buck, HGTV Showdown, and America's longest running gardening program The Victory Garden, which airs on PBS. Jamie also appeared regularly on The Oprah Winfrey Show offering garden advice and inspiration following his first appearance on the show in 2006. In 2012, Jamie featured in a documentary on Cirque du Soleil for Australia television.
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Jamie also designs a range of outdoor furniture and gardening products (PATIO by Jamie Durie, available exclusively through Big W Australia), paint range (Jamie Durie Signature by Porters Paints), and indoor and outdoor rug collections (Jamie Durie Signature by The Rug Collection). He has also developed an iPhone app, Garden Design with Jamie Durie, which will be released in 2012. An advocate for conserving our natural surroundings and environmental future, Jamie is passionately involved with environment and charity work.
Each year he donates his time and resources to many charities, including FSHD, the Children's Cancer Institute and The Children's Hospital at Westmead. He trained with former Vice President Al Gore as a Climate Project Presenter, and is an Ambassador for PLAN International, the Children's Cancer Institute, Planet Ark, National Tree Day, the Forest Stewardship Council and Earth Hour. He also hosted the Australian Conservation Foundation's Spirituality and Sustainability Forum with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and is an ambassador and former board member of the Royal Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney.
THE INTEGRATION OF INDOOR AND OUTD OUR PRIMARY AIMS AND FOCUSES, AND P TOWARDS THE USE OF NATURAL MATERIA INHERENT DEPTH AND TIMELESS QUALIT TRUE ART IS DESIGNING A GARDEN THAT DESTINATION RATHER THAN JUST SOMET FROM AFAR." 11
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the exhibition
Durie and his team from PATIO Landscape Architecture & Design created the award-winning garden, officially titled:
FLEMING’S AND TRAILFINDERS AUSTRALIAN GARDEN, PRESENTED BY MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
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Renowned Australian landscape designer Jamie Durie, together with the team from Fleming’s Nurseries and Trailfinders, has officially been awarded a Gold Medal in the Show Gardens category at the prestigious 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
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For the past four years Fleming's Nurseries have presented Australian Show Gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show. We believe that this has generated enormous positive media attention for the Australian Horticultural Industry on the world stage, and particularly within Australia, while at the same time adding a unique element to the Chelsea Flower show itself.
This year we propose to present a garden that reflects on the natural colours, textures and materials of Australia. Over the past years we have learnt that the thing that sets Australian Gardens apart from other gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show is that they are designed to live in. Visitors to the show can imagine themselves being in the garden and interacting with elements of the garden. This year's design is intended to give visitors a brief glimpse of Australia and the laid back Australian lifestyle.
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“THIS IS ONE
OF THE MOST EXCITING PROJECTS I’ve ever worked on. We set ourselves the difficult challenge of using only australian native plants in the garden and in turn created the first ever 100 percent native australian garden in the show’s history. It is such an honour to have design trends that are so unique to our country acknowledged at such a respected, internationally renowned event. we are just thrilled”
-Durie
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The resulting garden is a stunning representation of Australian horticulture and lifestyle that reflects the natural colours, textures and materials of the land and represents the many faces of Australia, with influences from Kakadu as well as Australia’s vast deserts, picturesque beaches and distinctive flora.
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urie’s design features a wetland, a large
curved deck, fire pit,layered stonework, iconic native Australian plants and textured walls featuring a distinctive mural by renowned Aboriginal artist Gabriella Possum.
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The world renowned RHS Chelsea Flower Show is regarded as the world’s greatest flower show and is attended by approximately 157,000 visitors each year. Held annually for five days every May, it is a major annual calendar event in the United Kingdom (UK) attended by members of the British Royal Family and has been described as the garden design equivalent of a fashion show.
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the plants
XANTHORRHOREA
Xanthorrhoea is a genus of flowering plants native to Australia and a member of family Xanthorrhoeaceae, being the only member of subfamily Xanthorrhoeoideae. The Xanthorrhoeaceae are monocots, part of order Asparagales. There are 28 species and five subspecies of Xanthorrhoea.
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They are evergreen shrubs and trees growing to 35 m tall. The foliage consists of slender, much-branched green to grey-green twigs bearing minute scale-leaves in whorls of 5–20. The flowers are produced in small catkin-like inflorescences; the flowers are simple spikes. Most species are dioecious, but a few are monoecious. The fruit is a woody, oval structure superficially resembling a conifer cone made up of numerous carpels each containing a single seed with a small wing.[1][3] The generic name is derived from the Malay word for the cassowary, kasuari, alluding to the similarities between the bird's feathers and the plant's foliage,[4] though the tree is called rhu in current standard Malay. Casuarina species are a food source of the larvae of hepialid moths; members of the genus Aenetus, including A. lewinii and A. splendens, burrow horizontally into the trunk then vertically down. Endoclita malabaricus also feeds on Casuarina. The noctuid Turnip Moth is also recorded feeding on Casuarina.
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CASUARINA
Casuarina is a genus of 17 species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australasia, the Indian Subcontinent, southeast Asia, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean. It was once treated as the sole genus in the family, but has been split into three general.
E U C A LY P T U S
Eucalyptus is one of three similar genera that are commonly referred to as "eucalypts", the others being Corymbia and Angophora. Many species, but far from all, are known as gum trees because they exude copious sap from any break in the bark (e.g., scribbly gum). The generic name is derived from the Greek words ευ (eu) "well" and καλυπτος (kalyptos) "covered", referring to the operculum on the calyx that initially conceals the flower. On warm days eucalyptus forests are sometimes shrouded in a smog-like mist of vaporised volatile organic compounds (terpenoids); the Australian Blue Mountains take their name from the haze.
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BANKSIA
Banksia is a genus of around 170 species in the plant family Proteaceae. These Australian wildflowers and popular garden plants are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes and fruiting "cones" and heads. When it comes to size, banksias range from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 30 metres tall. They are generally found in a wide variety of landscapes; sclerophyll forest, (occasionally) rainforest, shrubland, and some more arid landscapes, though not in Australia's deserts. Heavy producers of nectar, banksias form a vital part of the food chain in the Australian bush. They are an important food source for all sorts of nectarrific animals, including birds, bats, rats, possums, stingless bees and a host of invertebrates. Furthermore, they are of economic importance to Australia's nursery and cut flower industries. However these plants are threatened by a number of processes including land clearing, frequent burning and disease, and a number of species are rare and endangered.
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ALLOCASUARINA
Allocasuarina is a genus of trees in the flowering plant family Casuarinaceae. They are endemic to Australia, occurring primarily in the south. Like the closely related genus Casuarina, they are commonly called sheoaks or she-oaks, they are notable for their long, segmented branchlets that function as leaves. Formally termed cladodes, these branchlets somewhat resemble pine needles, although sheoaks are actually flowering plants. The leaves are reduced to minute scales encircling each joint. Fallen cladodes form a dense, soft mat beneath sheoaks, preventing the development of undergrowth and making sheoak woods remarkably quiet. Another characteristic feature are the spiny "cones", about the size of an acorn but with a texture more resembling a conifer cone. However, sheoak "cones" are actually a woody fruit. Male specimens bear no fruit and are sometimes colloquially referred to as a "heoak".
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FABOIDEAE
The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family.[4] This subfamily is widely distributed and members are adapted to a wide variety of environments. Faboideae may be trees, shrubs or herbaceous plants. Members include the pea, the sweet pea and the laburnum. The flowers are classically peashaped, and root nodulation is very common.
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Celebrity Speakers Australia. (n.d.). Jamie Durie. Retrieved 12 February 2014 from : http://newsroom.nt.gov.au/adminmedia/mailouts/11164/attachments/OBM%20jamiedurie.pdf Durie Design. (n.d.). Chelsea Flower Show. Retrieved 12 February 2014 from : http://www.jamieduriedesign.com/chelsea-flower-show/ Jamie Durie Wins Gold Medal at esteemed royal holticultural society (RHS) chelsea flower show in London. (n.d.).Retrieved 12 February 2014 from :http://www.tda.edu.au/resources/2605082.pdf Wikipedia. February 2014. Floral of Australia. Retrieved 12 February 2014 from :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_of_Australia
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