THE creative director of the Share Sustainability Agency has won third place in the Melbourne international flowering garden show border garden design competition.
Josie Jones, of Rye, said that stepping into the realm of the competition was “a complete leap of love”.
The Mornington Peninsula clean-up hero, who daily picks up litter from the beach and heads rubbish awareness programs, drew on her love of the rare weedy seadragon and gardening to create a garden bed that impressed judges.
“As someone who has quietly nurtured a passion for gardening my entire life, the joy and humility I feel in securing a place on the podium are beyond words,” Jones said. “I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity to work alongside incredibly talented landscape designers, whose creations have brought to life a unique collective of briefs.”
Jones said her Mermaids Enclave was a call to action and a reminder of the need to protect coastal and marine environments. “The garden abstractly replicates the hues and textures of sea nymph seaweed, and other marine species, like the weedy seadragon, filter feeding soft corals and lightbulb sea squirts.”
Jones thanked artist Sue Osborn for the creating the weedy seadragon sculptures and Christian Gundesen “for supporting my bold ideas and being my muscle”.
First published in the Mornington News – 2nd April 2024
