From the most enthusiastic of horticulturalists to just the lovers of the great outdoors, Australia’s grand slam of gardening, the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is one of the most important events of the year.
The Melbourne Flower show not only sets the gardening trends of the year it is also the curtain raising event in the international Garden Show Circuit and the precursor to the Gardening Worlds Wimbledon equivalent- The Chelsea Flower Show.
Garden shows are popular worldwide as a way of displaying innovations pioneered by growers and horticulturalists in style, science and technology. Lawns have always played a key role in garden shows, for example J. Macdonald’s Chelsea show garden in the 1930’s was a world first showcasing the merits of ornamental grasses. In 1959 also at Chelsea The Times displayed the popular ‘Garden of Tomorrow’ complete with a radio-controlled lawn mower.
In the Garden Show calendar, five shows are regarded as the world’s best and most fiercely competitive. In the Northern Hemisphere the Philadelphia Flower Show, the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and the Singapore Garden Festival reign supreme, while the largest and most influential in the Southern Hemisphere is the Melbourne International Flower and Garden show. These shows are the pathway to a coveted spot at Chelsea where much like a Grand Slam, the world watches the best battle it out- armed with the best design teams and varieties of turf and flora the world has to offer.
Lawn Solutions Australia (LSA) is the presenting partner for the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. Who better to present the biggest garden show in the land than the best of the best of Australian lawns? With the largest turf research facility in the Southern Hemisphere, LSA is an Australian leader in innovation, education and sustainability- all principals which are also at the heart of the Melbourne Flower show.
Lawn Solutions Australia will be exhibiting premium turf varieties throughout the show as well as presenting a show garden designed by long time ambassador and Better Homes and Gardens presenter Jason Hodges. Jason Hodges has been a gold medallist at the Melbourne Flower Show four times and in 2012 was awarded the Silver Gilt medal at Chelsea Flower Show. LSA and Jason Hodges are advocates of the importance of lawn for health and wellbeing and the classic Australian lawn will be the centrepiece of 2019’s Melbourne Flower Show entry.
This year the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show will again be staged at the World heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens between 27th – 31st March. If you would like to join the 100,00 visitors who experience the show every year tickets can be purchased from melbflowershow.com.au.
The Australian lawn has become an icon in the Australian landscape. Lawn Solutions Australia (LSA) is ensuring that Australians are provided with the most beautiful and low maintenance turf varieties in the country, developed over decades of rigorous scientific testing.
To showcase these turf varieties, in an industry first sponsorship, LSA has proudly embraced the role of presenting partner to the largest and most prestigious horticultural event in the Southern Hemisphere – The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.
Well and truly putting the great Australian Lawn back on its pedestal as the centrepiece of all great Aussie backyards!
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is the place where the best of the best strut their stuff and Lawn Solutions Australia, as the leading organisation in the Australian Turf industry is extremely excited to be a part of it.
