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Season's Greetings from Ian Barker Gardens
2017 has been another truly wonderful year for the team at Ian Barker Gardens. As 2017 draws to a close, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank all our [...]
Bay Tree (Laurus nobilis)
Screening and hedging plants are in greater demand than ever, and one particular plant is gaining popularity, with good reason – the Bay Tree (Laurus nobilis). Bay trees make excellent [...]
Noel Kingsbury – Naturalistic Perennial Planting
Back in 2015, Ian presented on ‘Naturalistic Perennial Planting in Australia’ at the Horticultural Gardening Festival. As part of this presentation, he highlighted his Top 10 list of landscape designers [...]
Glen Iris Project – Garden Design
Back in October 2015 we were approached by our wonderful clients to better utilise the space that was available to them at the rear and side of their Glen Iris [...]
Radius Root Slayer
Winner of the 2017 Green Thumb Award for Most Innovative Garden Tool, the Radius Root Slayer is a multi-purpose shovel that can eliminate the need for other tools, such as [...]
Kew Project – Garden Design
Properties just don’t get more impressive than this. Built in 1860 by renowned designer John Beswicke (responsible for a number of impressive builds including MLC, Hawthorn Town Hall, Auburn Rd [...]
Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Arguably the most beautiful of the flowering trees, (especially in Ian’s eyes - hence why he used them in his last Chelsea entry), the Cornus florida, commonly known as Flowering [...]
Eton Terrace – Carolyn Grohmann – International Garden Designer
We stumbled upon UK designer Carolyn Grohmann in looking for inspiration for our Oxford project. Carolyn’s design aesthetic is innovative, texture driven and colour scheme led. She shares our approach [...]
We’re in our ‘Element’ with this fire pit
Sitting by a fire is the perfect way to maximise time outdoors. So the team at Ian Barker Gardens was both delighted and excited when they recently stumbled across the [...]
3 Wins at the 2017 Landscaping Victoria Industry Awards!
Congratulations to our extraordinary team - 3 wins at this year's Landscaping Victoria Industry Awards! Winning one for 'Hard Structures in the Landscape' (Camberwell project) and two for 'Residential Landscape [...]