The latest trend in garden design in Australia is to create ‘theatrical’ gardens, which often contain elements from other countries and cultures. The inspiration may come from holiday travel. Back home you can create a garden to remind you of your holidays every day of the year. If you haven’t travelled, you can take your inspiration from books, paintings or interesting artefacts.
In our segment we showed a small, Moroccan-style courtyard in a new estate at Noosa, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The garden was the work of local landscape designers Anne-Marie and Dror Barkai.
The courtyard has all the attributes of an Islamic influenced garden, including enclosing walls, geometry, attractive blue tiles and a beautiful water feature. The rich, tan colour of the gravel is repeated in the paint colour of the seating areas, giving them the look of mud buildings that might be seen in Morocco. Terracotta pots are planted with kentia palms and citrus, and there is also a barbecue area at the back. At the front door is an authentic Moroccan pot. The whole feel of the courtyard is fresh, different and lots of fun
Wattyl Paints in ‘Burnt Brick’ (brown) and ‘Deep Blue’ (blue) were used in the courtyard, and the pavers were Urbanstone. River stone from the Mary River in Queensland was used on the wall and for the base of the seats.
Further information
The landscape design was by:
Rock’N’Root Art Landscapes
640 Cootharaba Rd
Cootharaba, QLD, 4565
Phone: (07) 5485 3855
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