Fire pit and cane loungers on the gravel terrace, with the timber pergola and the Royal Exhibition Building beyond

MIFGS 2026.

A show garden built in Carlton Gardens for the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, in the shadow of the Royal Exhibition Building. Rendered walls, travertine and a long timber pergola hold a spa, an outdoor shower, a kitchen and a dining table. The planting is subtropical and silver, laid on thick enough that the show ground disappears once you are standing inside it.

Bathing terrace.

Round rendered spa set into silver planting, with the outdoor shower wall and pergola behind
Two arched render walls carrying the brass shower, framed by fan palms and strelitzia
Detail of the aged brass rain shower head against the trunk of a date palm
Travertine steps rising to the shower wall, with the built in daybed alongside
Fluted travertine step treads meeting the green steel planter edge and stepping stones
Travertine, fluted risers
The curved lip of the spa where it meets ferns, lawn and travertine stepping stones

Pavilion.

Concrete outdoor kitchen with a green trough sink, brass tapware and firewood stacked below
Timber dining table set under the pergola, rattan pendant above and a hat left on the bench
Looking across the cane loungers and gravel terrace toward the arched shower walls
Strelitzia leaves breaking over the stepped edge of a rendered wall
The garden read as a whole, cycads and date palms over silver planting with the pergola to the right