The Mosaic Garden

19 years ago

I was really amazed when I checked in yesterday morn and found Wench's post on mosaic houses because I was on my way to a famous garden, part of the Australian Open Garden Scheme - The Mosaic Garden. It was created by Margot Knox with help from her children from 1985 up until her death in 2002. I had seen it on a gardening program 2 years ago and was waiting to see when it was opened again - I had just missed it. I am soooo glad I went. The owner of the house said she wasn't going to open it again for the next couple of years so I just feel so lucky to have caught that it was open. Because it's fall here now, the OGS are winding down for the year.

I took a lot of pics for you gals (and whatever guys if any check in here) and gave it a seperate file in my Photobucket album.

Enjoy the inspiration!

Cait

Here is a link that might be useful: The Mosaic garden

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Comments (12)

Calamity_J
19 years ago
Oh Cait!!! What a lovely place!! Thanks for bringing us with you and I'm sure it was even nicer in person!!! It sooo reminds me of the Haciendo Mosaico in Mexico!!! Except over the top more! With the house done too! wow! Those benches/tables/etc, are exactly what we learned from Riana's course!!! Thanks for posting this Eye Candy!!! Sooo inspiring!!! Luv it! Jane
haziemoon
19 years ago
Wow! I bet that was so fun to see.
I love that bench and table cloth. I would love to try something big like that!

Thanks for sharing the pics with us Cait!

Hazie
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Bright199
19 years ago
Very Awsome!!! Thanks for sharing. If I was single......
tiffy_z5_6_can
19 years ago
Wonderful! Thanks for taking us on the tour with you!
crackpotannie
19 years ago
Oh Cait how lucky you are to have seen that!It's in all my favorite colors for my back yard.......I would die to go there myself.What town is it in?
lilym
19 years ago
Awesome!
yvonne_tpi
19 years ago
Wow, there's a lot more there. I used to live on Burwood Road many years ago. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
She was a really neat lady, her family too.
If you're out and about over Benalla way, the tourist centre is one enormous mosaic. Take a pair of thongs with you, [the Aussie kind for feet] to play the organ pipes on the roof.
Dottie B.
19 years ago
What an incredible site! Thanks so much for sharing with us!
d3bbi
19 years ago
Cait, I loved viewing your photos. What a neat garden! Thanks for sharing this experience. My favorite is the table with the mosaiced tablecloth.
lyndalu
19 years ago
Cait, thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing that with us, and for taking so many great pictures. What a great place. The bench and the table cloth were especially amazing and beautiful.

Did anyone catch the HGTV "That's Clever" episode recently, where the artist makes a "quilt" that she hangs over a metal headboard? She carves the base out of foam, using a "hot knife" and some other tools, and then she puts a cement mix over that, and then mosaic'd it like it was a quilt. Very pretty. Similar to the one someone posted recently, but this one was smaller.

Thanks again, Cait!
texaswild
19 years ago
Just getting to this thread. CAIT: How wonderful that you could see this place, and THANK YOU for sharing. It inspired me AGAIN to get busy on using what we learned in P.V. to make something for my garden. Oh, to have more energy to DO IT ALL.
cait1
Original Author
19 years ago
As I walked around this magnificent garden all I could think about were you wonderful people on this forum and wishing I could have you all there with me. I'm just happy there are such things as digi cameras and forums like this where we can share our experiences and all the beautiful SG&M things we make and see.

Yvonne - how wonderful it must have been to have met Margot. I'll have to check out Benalla one of these days.

Lyndalu - Thank YOU for that HGTV info. I have big pieces of foam and I'm gonna make a bench out of it! Don't know when, but I'm gonna!