Exploring the native wildflowers with Sascha.

Project
Wildflower Boardwalk
Forrest, Canberra

Year
2020

Synopsis

It was fun exploring this boardwalk and track of wildflowers with Sascha. 

There were two desires driving this design. A journey & an abundance of water.

The journey

A path to walk, with things to interact with and gently look at. As the mind wanders, small details catch the attention of the eye for a moment or two before moving along. 

An abundance of water

This garden contains a man-made dry creek bed with the capacity to store thousands of litres of water underground. All harvested and stored from rain. This water supplies the landscape creating an abundance of vegetation & flowering concentrated over the dry creek bed.

The timber boardwalk was selected to prevent any interruptions to the flow of water into the dry creekbed. 

A low view of the recycled timber boardwalk, showing the bulbine lillies, rhodanthe & myoporum. A grapevine grows on the fenceline in the background.
Teenager, Sascha, is stretching down to look at a flower in the garden. The bulbine lillies are spread throughout the garden, some in focus, some blurred. The white and yellow flowers are rhodanthe & lush green myoporum fills in areas of the garden.
Teenager, Sascha, is walking along the boardwalk. This image gives a sense of scale to the garden. The bulbine lillies are spread throughout the garden, some in focus, some blurred. The white and yellow flowers are rhodanthe & lush green myoporum fil
Teenager, Sascha, is closely inspecting the some Rhodanthe flowers. The Thor's Hammer recycled timber is greying in the foreground.
A black and white image of the Canberra garden in Forrest show the view from a different perspective. A shade structure is seen in the background, along with the roof line and back wall of the family's sauna. Natural rocks are seen in the foreground
A beautiful, dark and moody image of a Dietes plant is in flower.
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