Explore the captivating feature garden competitions at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show, featuring the exciting Boutique Garden Competition and the Challenger Achievable Gardens competition. The Boutique Garden Competition invites both established and emerging landscape designers to showcase their creativity in intimate 5x5m spaces. Meanwhile, the Challenger Achievable Gardens competition empowers students to demonstrate their design skills and horticultural knowledge, offering invaluable industry experience from concept to construction.
boutique gardens
The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show will once again host the Boutique Garden Competition – a unique opportunity for Landscape Designers and Landscape Architects both professional and emerging to participate at The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.
Managed by Landscaping Victoria Master Landscapers (LVML), this unique opportunity provides established and emerging Landscape Designers and Landscape Architects to participate at The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. The Boutique Garden Competition offers up to five (5) finalists an opportunity to showcase their design talents, push design boundaries, gain valuable industry experience and promote their business to the 100,000+ visitors to the Show, as well as capitalise on post-event publicity.
Each garden will be 5x5m and should represent the intimate knowledge of the leading and emerging landscape garden designers in presenting a space that wows the visitors to the Show. The competition is at the forefront of minds of both Show visitors and professionals within the landscape industry and often reflects the dream backyards of many modern Australians.
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challenger achievable gardens
The Challenger Achievable Gardens competition, offers students and educational institutions the opportunity to showcase their design skills and horticultural knowledge, promote achievable gardening and encourage the use of high-quality plants in the landscape.
It’s a great learning experience for students, allowing them to go through the process from concept design and project coordination to construction of the show garden. No public event gives students a better introduction to working in the horticultural industry.
