From Garden Tragedy to World-First Innovation
It all started, like many good tales do, with a tragedy. One particularly windy weekend a beloved 25-year-old maple tree was blown over in our garden. After a few sad hours of chopping and chain-sawing, we – ever-hopeful - spotted an
opportunity.
Some of the branches looked as though
they’d make interesting frames for netting, a way of stopping the wild ducks getting to our vegetable garden. It worked! We then turned our attention to other ways we could use these offcuts – it was a very big tree after all - to provide support for climbing plants.
After seeing how well they performed,
Flexi Garden Frames® was born and we started to work on how they could be used to make gardens more productive, by letting lots of air and light get to the plants? Can we help make gardening easier and more enjoyable for everyone, by not having to spend all the time mending broken frames made of bamboo, sticks and stakes from around the garden? How can we make the frames reusable for any situation and long lasting?
And so right here in Australia these world first, made for purpose garden frames were created – the only multipurpose modular garden frames you will find anywhere.
Modular, because we know that all gardens are different shapes and sizes and the frames need to accommodate that.
Modular, so gardeners can take them apart and rebuild or reconfigure to suit the time of the year and the plants being grown.
Modular, to provide a frame that can be used from seed to harvest.
Modular, so gardeners could bespoke a frame to solve their specific problem, location, size or shape.
And here we now are, after spending a few years in the garage making up kits and sending them out, and at garden markets selling them to gardeners, to a business that not only provides the frames in Australia, but around the world.
Meccano for Gardeners. Flexi Garden Frames was born
Just like Meccano for gardeners, Flexi Garden Frames® come with a number of components that can be easily fitted together into many different shapes and sizes. You can tailor it to the job at hand, whether that is for a small courtyard, a balcony or large garden beds. You choose how you'd like to use them according to your garden's needs. Simple as that!
For the first time gardeners can now easily provide support for climbing plants like peas, beans, cucumbers, tomatoes etc, as well as a frame to add netting, shade/frost cloth or greenhouse film to – and just as easy to take off again.
Frames sit in the garden bed, with the legs pushed to the far corners and down a little into the soil. This creates a very open space for air and light to get to the plants, as well as enabling the gardener to garden.
As great garden ideas go, this is perfect. You don’t need to untie things or struggle with broken sticks or stakes stabbing you and tearing the netting, no nails or screws and no more hammering sticks into the ground, and struggling to get them out again, or just watching them rot away.
You will be amazed at the difference these frames make to your enjoyment and ease of working in the garden and just how much time they free up for you to spend sowing, maintaining and harvesting the garden – or just sitting back and having a cup of tea!
