I was after a bit of design inspiration last week so I took myself down to The National Garden Exhibition Centre in County Wicklow. This centre has been open for two decades and exhibits twenty showcase gardens planned by the countries leading designers. The gardens are mostly quite conservative but there are new designers coming in and putting a contemporary feel into some of the corners. One garden has loads of vertical ten-foot planks everywhere to give you a feeling of three-dimensional space; they are painted white just in case you might bump into them!
GABION BASKETS
The choices of materials for the paths were interesting to see and I was taken by one design in particular that used Gabion baskets for their main structural design. These baskets are usually used for retaining riverbank walls or keeping hillsides from falling onto the road when it carves through a hillside. They are made from an open weave of galvanised steel and some have a plastic coating. A basket has a guarantee of one hundred years as well! In this garden design the Gabion baskets have been filled with choice, quality stone (some of it from Donegal) to make a fantastic border to the lawn and patio area the style is of a nautical nature and there is also a full sized sail in the garden on the patio. It is not to everyone’s taste I would imagine, using materials such as this will always have its critics, but it would be a great talking point if it was on your own plot. For more information check out the Phi website www.phiireland.ie
GABION BASKETS
The choices of materials for the paths were interesting to see and I was taken by one design in particular that used Gabion baskets for their main structural design. These baskets are usually used for retaining riverbank walls or keeping hillsides from falling onto the road when it carves through a hillside. They are made from an open weave of galvanised steel and some have a plastic coating. A basket has a guarantee of one hundred years as well! In this garden design the Gabion baskets have been filled with choice, quality stone (some of it from Donegal) to make a fantastic border to the lawn and patio area the style is of a nautical nature and there is also a full sized sail in the garden on the patio. It is not to everyone’s taste I would imagine, using materials such as this will always have its critics, but it would be a great talking point if it was on your own plot. For more information check out the Phi website www.phiireland.ie
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