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Charlie Albone
The Power of Structure at MIFGS 2026
By Charlie Albone I always find the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show a bit overwhelming in the best possible way. You walk in thinking you’ll take a quick lap, and before you know it, you’ve spent hours wandering through gardens that feel more like experiences than displays. This year, what really stood out to me was how much structure played a role in those spaces. Not just the plants, but the way everything was shaped, defined and held together. And ShapeScaper steel was everywhere you looked, not in a loud, obvious way, but in that quiet, confident way…
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Overlapping grass creeping into a garden bed is one of those things you stop seeing after a while. The edge softens, the mulch shifts, the line between lawn and planting disappears — and the whole yard starts to look vaguely unresolved without any single thing being obviously wrong. Garden edging defines and holds that line. A clean, continuous edge between lawn and bed, path and planting, gravel and soil. Not just tidy — structurally contained. Grass roots stop where they’re supposed to. Mulch stays put. The shapes you’ve designed into the garden actually read as shapes. How Steel Edging Changes…
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