If your garden could do with a revamp and formal gardens are your style, be sure to pick up a copy of Formal Gardens, a gorgeous bookazine published by the team at Universal Magazines. Formal Gardens showcases more than 30 beautiful gardens from around Australia, designed by some of the best landscape designers in Melbourne and across Australia. The bookazine is filled with beautiful images of garden designs ranging from large-scale traditional formal gardens to French-style small courtyards and semi-formal family gardens.
Ian Barker Gardens are delighted to have our Glen Iris project featured in the bookazine in ‘Parterre Perfection’ on page 148. The article describes how the homeowner’s brief for a plant focused Mediterranean inspired parterre garden was achieved, and details which plants and other features can be found in the garden design.
“…the lush parterre not only looks the part, it also contains many of the owners’ favourite plants. Different plants come to the fore at different times, creating year-round interest. To keep the Mediterranean feel alive, landscape designer Ian Barker included plants such as olive trees and used a mixture of grey-green and black-green leaf colours…”
Keep scrolling to see the article and to view more images of the Glen Iris garden design project…
