Winner
RB Landscapes
Deepdene Project
Judge’s Comments:
This standout project exemplifies all that a professional landscape should, beautifully designed, innovative and creative and exceptionally well constructed and delivered and environmentally sustainable. It's understated appearance suggests only happy days in the garden.
Read more >
Formation Landscapes
Essendon Project
A complex project with limited access, this landscape represents high quality work within a restrained budget. A high level of communication and client involvement, combined with strong technical skills, and lateral thinking has lead to an outdoor space that invites you in and you don't want to leave.
Templestow Project
Value for money and the representation of quality, pride and professionalism is what contributed to this project selection as the winner for this category. High quality materials combined with correct construction techniques has produced the end result, an award winning landscape project.
This project demonstrates the diverse abilities and skill sets the contractor possessed to successfully construct this project. Representing value for money, this project caters to all you would expect within a residential landscape. Locally sourced product and recycled materials constructed using craftsman skills has produced a landscape that sits perfectly in it's environment. Lifestyle, parkland setting and privavacy, this is a garden that supports the claim that professional landscaping does make life better.
Jenny Smith Gardens
East Malver Project
This year there was a clear winner in this category. The project was executed with a high level of detail and consitent quality. The site, specifically the rear, provided logistical challenges that required forward planning. The completed project sat beautifully within the restricted spaces located around the client's residence. A harmonious blend of plants, hard landscaping and sculpture provides reward to all who are fortunate to enjoy.
H2O Designs
Docklands Project
Judges Comments:
On face value this garden presents a beautifully crafted water wall, table and chairs within a small internal courtyard. But it is so much more than this. The individual pieces were meticulously communicated by an elaborate series of detail drawings and 'photoshop' pictures. Innovation was on display with the use of a dichroic plate and water - all housed within the table top - gives a spectacular shimmering effect, particularly at night. Beyond this, the positioning of the table, chairs and water wall within this small courtyard space made for breath taking views from all doors and windows, without interrupting pedestrian flow through the space.
East Malvern Project
This project's success is based on how well all the elements combine and work with the home around which it is based. Plants, hard elements and sculptures have all be planned and located to create interesting visual and unexpected focal points that draw you in and around the garden. Choice of materials and construction techniques add to the success.
Many projects claim to be sustainable and many have some components of sustainability. This project demonstrates this by combining local and recycled construction materials using sustainable construction techniques. Using and managing the water in a sustainable way by collecting, recycling and reusing the water back into the landscape. Plant selection and minimal impact on the environment all contribute to this project being the Sustainable Landscape for 2010.
Richard Bellemo's outdoor kitchen contains so many elements that have not been seen before in a residential landscape including the hydroponic rockwall, the mini trout farm and the slate shingled roof and pizza oven. All executed well using sympathetic materials anchored beautifully within the garden.
Australian Native Landscapes
Chadstone Project
The success of this project is directly related to the exemplary communication and trust between contractor and client. The creative effects of these plantings were excellent both inside and outside the shopping centre. Attention to detail was obvious and plant selection and plantings were innovative and ground breaking.
PTA Landscapes
Gruyere Project
PTA Landscapes has constructed a wall of significant proportions that link the client's residence in form, to the grand scale of the panoramic scenery. Serving it's purpose as a strong defining edge to the produce garden and a focal point, this wall is well built and serves as a vantage point to view the surrounding landscape.
Ocean Road Landscaping
Angelsea Project
Exacting attention to detail and set out on a difficult site made this a clear winner in this category. The contractor showed meticulous care with joints, and levels and finished to a high degree.
Phillip Johnson Sustainable Landscape Systems
Trio Aprartments Sydney Project
This highly experimental project for both the client and the contractor has managed to deliver a visually stunning living wall that is both well constructed and maintained. Plant selection, planning and documentation processes have been meticulously thought through and detailed. Logistics of planting in situ adding a new element to landscape construction.
PA Kingston Landscapes
Caulfield Grammar Wheelers Hill Project
The quality of workmanship and the execution of the design make this a standout project. The high level of finish and the complexity of the levels mark this as an exemplary project in landscape construction.
Hamish Curran
As this year's winner of the apprentice of the year, Hamish showed a high level of maturity in his approach to his future landscaping career and an understanding of the current and future challenges the industry is facing. Combined with his ability to apply construction, problem solving and communication skills. Hamish has demonstrated that he is a worthy winner of the 2010 Landscape Apprentice of the Year.
Warners Nurseries
Judge's Comments:
What can be said about Warner's Nursery that hasn't been said previously? Warner's continues to win accolades from landscape professionals for their quality stock, their exemplary service, knowledge and their after sales service. Multi award winner for this category, the team at Warner's continues to be the market leaders.
Trio Apartments Sydney Project
This project presented a considerable challenge with impressive commitment from both client and contractor to establish a benchmark for landscape maintenance. Whilst the project is still very experimental, the high level of documentation and ongoing nutrient monitoring of the wall has made this a huge success under demanding and unusual conditions.
