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Ruby Necklace - Award Winning Garden Design! “Ruby Necklace, the winning design layout for the Botanic Garden’s Innovative Garden competition ... proved a great success with its emphasis on red coprosma “rubies” set in circles of variegated agapanthus against a background of bright green foliage dripping with tiny white diamonds.” - Bethney McLennan, gardening features writer for The Dominion Post and ones of the judges of the garden design competition. The DesignThe annual competition showcases creative designs and uses of plants, and the winning design is planted up and on display for a year at the main gates to the gardens. Ruby Necklace, the winning design for 2006/07, used plants with beautiful colours, strong form, and contrasting foliage to create a living necklace. The design in more detail .... GalleryA garden usually takes a several years to develop, but the requirements of the competition were stringent: a tight budget, with the garden to be photogenic within 6 weeks of planting, and to be looking its best within 6 months.You be the judge .... Plant ListAll of the plants grew surprisingly well, thanks to the attention of the Botanic Garden’s team who installed and looked after Ruby Necklace. Plant list .... The Competition"But it’s time for a change," says Bethney. “The gardeners are now planting out the area with a Maori cloak (korowai), runner up in last year’s competition and the work of landscape architects Boffa Miskell.” The competition is open to established and aspiring designers, and the first innovative garden was created by landscape architect John Powell. It’s a great opportunity to showcase creativity in a very high profile site. How to enter .... |
