In the heart of Melbourne’s Bayside Suburbs is a garden centre which is proving that you can create a stylish sophisticated garden with little water or maintenance when you get the right plants and advice.
A visit to Bay Road Plants Plus is a lifestyle experience (ambience) - you can have lunch and a coffee, get great ideas for decorating the home or splurge on giftwares and accessories.
Bay Road is a Water Saver Nursery - which means it’s the place to go for advice, plants and products on everything to do with saving water in the garden - and by taking a visit you will see there is definitely no shortage of inspiration.
In hot dry conditions there is one style of garden that you can always depend on for easy care sophistication and style - and that’s Mediterranean. Nothing says Mediterranean style like containers filled with olives, geraniums, lavender and citrus, they are plants which soak up the sun and love it.
Gardens come in a myriad of styles and captivating the perfect look is not just about plants, it is about your choice of furniture and garden accessories too - so look for big terracotta pots and Mediterranean inspired furniture.
If you want the look without the work, then you can always take advantage of Bay Road’s Garden Design and Consultation service.
If you are new to gardening, Plants Plus Garden Centres are a good place to start, because they are designed to make choosing the right plant easy. So plants are grouped into themes or categories - be it a solution to a common garden problem or a fashionable style or colour.
Red foliage, for example, adds real contrast and richness to your planting. ’China Pink’ is also a classy choice. It has rich wine coloured foliage and a fantastic almost layered growth habit, which is magical cascading from containers.
For those who are close to the beach and want something really eye catching then one of the latest varieties of seaside loving Agonis called ’Burgundy’ would be perfect for you. It has striking weeping burgundy foliage, so it looks great all year and doesn’t need much water.
Spring is the ultimate time to get into your local garden centre for inspiration. If you are wondering how you can still create a stylish garden with little water then water saver garden centres like Bay Road have all the answers.
Bay Road Plants Plus
112 -114 Bay Road
Sandringham, 3191
Tel: 0395210197
Fax: 0395210997
