MIFGS Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show
2025 Boutique Gardens Competition
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.
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.
Hosted by Landscaping Victoria.
Entries to the 2025 Boutique Garden Competition are NOW OPEN
DOWNLOAD THE 2025 BRIEF & ENTRY FORM HEREVIEW THE ONSITE JUDGING CRITERA
Key Dates
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Entries open 9 August 2024
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All entries must be submitted no later than 16 September 2024
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Finalists will be decided by a panelist of judges by 30th September 2024
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MIFGS Bump in - 17th March until 25th March | MIFGS Bump out - 30th March until 2nd April
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Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show dates - 26th March - 30th March 2025
All submissions & enquiries are to be sent to events@landscapingvictoria.com.au
2024 Boutique Garden Finalists
First Place - Innersanctum
Paul Pritchard Landscapes have been creating beautiful gardens and outdoor spaces throughout Melbourne and its surrounds for almost 20 years. Paul designs with a passion to create spaces, that provide a complementary fusion of nature, function and design while accommodating each client’s individual needs and desires.
Paul brings the design “Innersanctum” to the show this year. “Innersanctum” connect with your inner sanctum in our idyllic plunge pool and courtyard garden, where tranquility meets luxury in pure harmony. This stunning outdoor retreat has been meticulously designed to provide a haven of relaxation and rejuvenation, offering a seamless blend of natural beauty and modern amenities.
Paul is excited to be returning to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show this year and is looking forward to initial comradery that all garden producers share and “being part of an International event that showcases the imagination and skill of our industry on a world stage.”
Check out Paul's winning Boutique Garden here - https://ppld.com.au/mifgs-2024/
Second Place - Breath of Fresh Air
Paul Alexander Landscape is an industry leading landscape design studio. They’re known for their innovative approach to residential landscape projects, delivering highly responsive design outcomes that are sensitive to both site and context.
Paul Alexander Landscape is a finalist in the 2024 Boutique Garden competition, bringing their design of “Breath of Fresh Air” to the show. The garden design concept draws inspiration from an emerging architectural approach that accentuates the intersection between landscape and built environment. In response to this approach the design of the garden emphasises the natural environment, while architectural elements assume a secondary role as sculptural complements. A rearranging of priorities that constitutes a refreshing change. The central design ethos involves an integration of abundant greenery. Simultaneously, architectural structures are conceived as unobtrusive sculptural arches. These arches, conceived with lightweight materials and permeable forms, maintain a harmonious dialogue with the surrounding environment. They function as both design elements and symbolic gateways, facilitating the interaction between vegetation and structure.
The team at Paul Alexander Landscape are very excited to be a part of MIFGS 2024 and we are looking forward to showcasing the creativity we try to bring to all of our projects to a much larger audience. “We have used the opportunity to propose a show garden we hope will prove an inspiration to show visitors.”
Ensure you check out “Breath of Fresh Air” here:
https://www.paulalexanderlandscape.com.au/mifgs-breath-of-fresh-air
hello@paulalexanderlandscape.com.au
0400925097
Third Place - Coastal Waves
Smart Landscapes is a full-service landscaping solution on the Mornington Peninsula. They design, build, and maintain beautiful gardens that will complement and enhance the architecture of your home.
Craig and his team at Smart Landscapes are excited to be a finalist in the Boutique Gardens competition this year with their design of “Coastal Waves.”
“Coastal Waves” celebrates the many vibrant and textural plants indigenous to the Peninsula. Aside from being beautiful, these natives require less water, resulting in long-term cost savings and ultimately helping to preserve one of our most valuable resources, water. The species featured in our garden play an important role in creating habitats for many birds and other native wildlife, as well as being vital in reducing soil erosion.
Craig is thrilled to have their garden selected as one of the finalists and is most excited about “building a garden which connects to where we work and live on the Mornington Peninsula. Building the garden with the team will be a personal highlight for me.”
Make sure you check out Coastal Waves here - https://www.instagram.com/smartlandscapes/
Esjay Landscapes + Pools are a boutique landscape design studio based in Melbourne, Australia. Over the past 20 years, the business has evolved and grown, curating a diverse portfolio of luxury residential properties, designing and building liveable gardens and outdoor spaces for some of Victoria’s most enviable homes.
Business Directors Sam & Emily Collie along with the team at Esjay Landscapes + Pools are excited to be showcasing their “Open Air” design at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden show this year.
Being in nature and fresh, open air is proven to be successful in boosting mood, decreasing stress, and reducing high blood pressure and heart rate. Esjay Landscapes + Pools are thrilled that our entry “Open Air” has been selected as a finalist in the 2024 Boutique Gardens Competition. Unhindered by the small area, their team wanted to capture the beauty and tranquillity of an outdoor space at home, and demonstrate that through harnessing water flow and whimsical plantings, harmony and modern aesthetics collide for the ultimate courtyard – a place to relax, wind down and be at one with the world outside.
You can experience “Open Air” here - https://www.esjaylandscapes.com.au/openair/
Owned by Daniel Althaus, Althaus Landscape Designs, are passionate about working closely with their clients to create a space that is unique and reflects who they are as well as their individual needs.
Daniel and the team at Althaus Landscape Designs, are excited to be showcasing their “Mother Ocean” design at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden show this year.
Mother Ocean is a garden that transcends traditional landscaping, symbolising a profound shift in our approach to gardening and our connection with the natural world. This visionary garden encourages us to depart from the rigid, man-made designs that have long dominated our landscapes and instead embrace a more naturalistic aesthetic that promotes environmental well-being.
Daniel is thrilled to be showcasing his work at MIFGS 2024. “It’s an incredible opportunity to showcase a snapshot of what Althaus Landscape Designs is capable of as a design business. It allows me to be completely free and creative, not unlike a painting in an art gallery.”
Experience “Mother Ocean” for yourself here
althauslandscapedesigns@outlook.com
0413633790
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show
2023 RECAP
BOUTIQUE GARDENS 2023 RECAP
Landscaping Victoria Master Landscapers is honoured to have hosted the annual Boutique Gardens Competition at MIFGS 2023.
This year’s competition showcased some of the most beautiful, innovative and boundary pushing garden displays that we’ve ever seen. The level of skill and attention to detail demonstrated by each of our finalists was truly remarkable and it was a pleasure to see so many different styles and approaches to your gardens.
A big congratulations to all five of our amazingly talented finalists for all their hard work:
1ST PLACE: “Karrikin Garden” - Alistair Kirkpatrick & Elliot Summers from Stratis Landscape Architects, garden constructed by Better Landscapes
2ND PLACE: “Slant” - Riley Cooper from Riley Cooper Landscape Design & Horticulture garden constructed by Bays Edge Landscapes
3RD PLACE: "Tectonic Fluidity" by Paul Pritchard from Paul Pritchard Landscapes garden constructed by Adam Hompas Landscapes
FINALIST: "The Duality Garden" by Bronni Skinner, constructed by @klaycon_lc
FINALIST: "Garden Reflections" designed and constructed by Lachlan Taylor-Nugent from Arrow Landscape Gardening
Thank you to our judges this year, we appreciate all your time and effort that was put in to judge this amazing competition; Phillip Withers, Jane Jones and Anthony Scott.
A big thank you to all of our Sponsors & Supporters of this garden competition, without your generous help we wouldn’t be able to reward our superstar finalists for all their hard work in the way we do!
Arborgreen Landscape Products, Ausflora Pacific, Botanix Plant Supply, Coolabah Turf, Dinsan Nursery, Fleming's Nurseries, FormBoss Metal Garden Edging, Garden City Plastics, Gardens at Night, Husqvarna Construction Australia, Kellock Pots and Planters, Mapei Australia, Prolific Stone International, Repurpose It, Shapescaper, Sharrock Pitman Legal, Smart Water, Speciality Trees, Sphera Lighting, TALL TREES, UrbanTurf, Warners Nurseries
LANDSCAPE ADVISORY CENTRE RECAP
Another year of MIFGS has come and gone, but what a fantastic event this was! Throughout the 5 day show, we had some amazing conversations with the public, conducted over 150 consultations, handed out the very FAMOUS LVML buckets with The Best magazine, generated new leads for our Members, hung out with some great suppliers with the likes of Coolabah Turf and even Jamie Durie popped by with our friends at Repurpose It.
We would like to thank all our volunteers and our design consultants who volunteered their time to advocate for the Industry on behalf of LVML. Our LVML industry representatives are an essential part of the team at this event, so a big thank you for all your time and effort to join us to fly the Landscaping flag and make our presences at this year’s show one of our most successful yet.
A big thank you to some of our Supplier Members who generously donated product to help enhance and attract traffic to the LVML Dome:
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