Feature Garden Competition

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

Managed by Landscaping Victoria (LV), this unique opportunity allows established and emerging landscape designers and architects to participate in the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.

The Boutique Garden Competition offers up to five (5) finalists an opportunity to showcase their landscape design talents, push design boundaries, gain valuable industry experience, promote their business to the 100,000+ Show visitors, and capitalise on post-event publicity.

Each garden is 5m x 5m and represents each landscape garden designer, presenting an impactful outdoor space that wows visitors to the Show. The competition is popular with Show visitors and landscaping industry professionals, often reflecting the dream backyards of many modern Australians.

The Boutique Gardens Competition will profile up to five (5) installations at the 2025 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, held in Carlton Gardens from Wednesday, 26th March to Sunday, 30th March 2025.

To view the competition brief and entry form and to submit your entry, please visit the Landscaping Victoria website.

View the 2024 Boutique Garden Competition finalists below.

CHECK OUT THE 2025 BOUTIQUE GARDEN DESIGNERS

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.