英文名称：Australian Flower garden

位置：澳大利亚

今天，我们要介绍的是墨尔本的一个花园，它的主人是Sam Clayton和她的丈夫Mal Wood。花园内的植物五颜六色，种类繁多，长势也比较好。十年前，Sam买下了这栋小别墅，花园没有经过认真地维持，杂草丛生，不过这也给了sam一个机会来将它打造成自己心目中的园林。当Mal几年以后搬到这里的时候，这对夫妇开始慢慢改造这片园林。他们在后院栽种了多种植物，许多植物是朋友赠送的，或者是作为管材使用。

我最喜欢的花园总是能够经过细心与爱心的裁剪而得来的，园艺师的创造性和设计方式以及他们对于美学的敏感性才有了花园的今天。对于我来说，花园的存在将住宅的各个部分联系起来，共同打造了一个现代化的园林。我非常喜欢这片花园带给我的活力，它的特征十分突出。Sam对美有一种独特的感受，她将不同颜色的草木搭配在一起，不仅为整个空间增添了活力，而且植物之间紧密结合，形成了强大的凝聚力。

Today we visit this lush, colourful, ‘anything goes’ Melbourne garden, belonging to Sam Clayton and her partner Mal Wood.When Sam purchased her Northcote cottage 10 years ago, the garden was unkept, with weeds waist high, but she was sold on its potential. When Mal moved in a few years later, the couple began to slowly transform the garden, with many of the plants in the backyard grown from cuttings gifted from friends or planted as tube stock.

My favourite gardens are always labours of love, expressions of the creativity and philosophy of the gardener and their aesthetic sensibility. To me, a strong connection between the place, the plants, and the gardener makes for an engaging and exciting garden.What I love about this garden is its vibrancy and personality. Sam clearly has an eye for unusual beauty. She’s not afraid to mix and match colours and textures, and has a great eye for pulling it all together in a cohesive manner.

澳大利亚花园实景图