Boral Cultured Stone was used in a wall cladding application in a competition organised at this year’s Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS).
In a design inspired by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, a student entry at the competition incorporated Boral Cultured Stone cladding as a key design element. One of four emerging garden designers chosen to participate in the Landscaping Victoria competition, Peta Donaldson of Mount Martha, Victoria used Cultured Stone in Country Ledgestone Aspen to add dimension to her grid garden design.
Sponsored by the Country Fire Authority (CFA), each entry in the competition had to create a garden that incorporated bushfire management in the design.
Donaldson’s garden featured a wall of Boral Cultured Stone, decorated with vertical gardens at the rear of the garden, offering another textural element whilst providing protection against the elements.
Donaldson explained that she used separation and layering within the garden with different materials such as low vegetation, inflammable mulch, pavers, lawn, water, concrete and stone to meet the CFA’s principles of design for the suburban garden.
According to Donaldson, Boral Cultured Stone is realistic in shape, texture and colour and provides garden designers with solutions for unique, visual displays. The wall was built using fire retardant blueboard, and then clad in Cultured Stone to give the garden interest and definition.
Cleverly engineered to look like traditional stone, Boral Cultured Stone cladding is an affordable and adaptable manufactured stone product for internal and external projects.
