Water features can introduce unique drama and sensory richness to an outdoor space, as James Dawson skillfully demonstrated...

Size matters. When choosing a water feature, consider scale, colour and size; as it's a relatively permanent feature...

A sustainable, space-saving garden that challenges conventional planting notions . . .

Much has beed written about the greening of our cities. The virtues of vertical gardens have been extolled and the creation of green roofs urged...

Landscape Outlook, Winter 2010 edition.

"Why do you build a garden at the show?" my family and freinds ask when we catch up around show time...

This year I worked wit Guide Dogs Victoria to create 'Through the Keyhole' - a sensory garden...

Through the Keyhole, designed and built by James Dawson for Guide Dogs Victoria and featured on Vasili's Garden

Through the Keyhole, designed and built by James Dawson for Guide Dogs Victoria and featured on Better Homes & Gardens.

A sustainable, space-saving garden that challenges conventional planting notions . . .

. . . ground. With vertical and roof gardens, these planting constraints dissapear and we are allowed to explore other planes in three dimensional space . . .

Green roofs and vertical gardens are the way of the future as Relativity, designed by James Dawson Landscape Design, so aptly highlighted - and inventively explored. James Dawson a . . .

Australia's celebration of design draws a religious following. Stand at The Outdoor Room designed by James Dawson Landscape Design. . .

Australia's biggest annual trade fair for designers and architects, designEX, is the pinnacle of the design calender. . .

Award winning show garden 'Relativity' featured on Better Homes & Gardens.

Victorian landscape designer James Dawson takes a well earned breather after winning bronze in the show garden category . . .

First time MIFGS entrant James Dawson was thrilled with his Bronze medal for his garden based on Dutch Artist MC Escher's work Relativity, which shows a 'paradoxical world' . . .

150km out of Melbourne there is salt crusting on the side of the highway, huge fields after fields of stunted grain crops, fedsempty o cattle and sheep . .

THe LIAV Garden as Art precinct was a resounding success with visitors streaming through the site from the start of the dy to the end. The Concept was to design and build a garden based on a shakespearean theme . . .