Small Gardens. Big Possibilities. How to create beautiful, productive and immersive outdoor spaces - even with a limited footprint.
Members Dig Deeper Webinar SeriesAbout this experience
La Muxlow recently received first place at the 2026 Melbourne International Garden and Flower Show for her balcony garden: Immerse.
What makes a small garden successful?
La Muxlow will share her five key areas of success. She will explore design techniques for small spaces (balconies, courtyards and small gardens), the importance of layered planting for immersion in nature and how to introduce productivity in your small space.
La will share the design lessons she learnt from creating a show garden in relation to lighting, irrigation and colour.
There will be time for you to dig deeper as well so please come with any questions you might have to make your small garden successful.
Your Host
La Muxlow is an award-winning landscape designer working on Wurundjeri country, in Melbourne’s north-eastern suburbs.
She is a self-confessed plant nerd and passionate about thoughtfully balancing the character of the land, the identity of the architecture, and the lifestyles of people who live there.
Having grown up surrounded by nature in sunny Cape Town South Africa, La picked up a love of gardening from an early age, falling in love with plant names, their habits and personalities. From the family decorating and property renovation business, she inherited a fascination with architecture and styling. Pouring over foorplans, debating Dulux colours and fabric combinations, was common dinner table conversation.
In 2009 La immigrated to Australia with her husband and fell in-love with Australian plants. She’s well known for her creative planting schemes paired Aussie natives with tough South African and Mediterranean plants.
One such combination won her first place at the Melbourne International flower and garden show in 2024.
La has settled on 10 beautiful acres of Aussie bush, rolling paddocks and informal country gardens surrounded by a menagerie of animals.
When she’s not designing gardens, you can find her with her children in the garden, nattering to her chickens (and her plants) or out walking our beautiful Victorian countryside.
