Neighbours shocked at state of Costa Georgiadis’ backyard

Popular Gardening Australia host Costa Georgiadis has answered neighbours’ queries about why a professional’s garden is so overgrown. Read why the silver Logie winner’s yard is so unkempt.

It seems Costa Georgiadis doesn’t heed the advice to “clean up your own backyard before you have a go at someone else’s”.

Some neighbours of the popular landscape architect, Gardening Australia host and recent Logie winner are bewildered as to how a professional gardner’s garden could be so overgrown.

Sunday Confidential has obtained images of the eastern suburbs garden, which is definitely more shaggy than manicured.

Costa Georgiadis’ garden has a wild look about it.

Rhonda Campbell, who lived in apartments adjacent to Georgiadis’s home for two years before moving recently, said while the television host was “lovely”, his garden was “a mess”.

“We just can’t understand why he was so famous as a gardener, but can’t keep his own garden clean,” Campbell told Sunday Confidential yesterday.

“He never mows the lawns. His backyard is messy, so messy.

“But maybe that’s his idea of what the perfect garden is. Maybe that’s his interpretation.”

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Another neighbour, who looks on to the $3.3 million property quipped: “He’s obviously so busy looking after everyone else’s gardens that he’s forgotten his own.”

But Georgiadis — who describes himself as half man, half hedge — says he has good reason for the overgrown garden.

Silver Logie winner Costa Georgiadis. Picture: Darren England

Georgiadis says his garden is ‘resting’ before a spring makeover.

“They say that gardens take on the looks of their owner much like people and their pets,” Georgiadis said from Greece.

“So yes, my wild and unkempt-looking garden is my perfect mirror. In reality my garden is currently resting and all that is growing will be turned into the soil.

“Compost from the adjacent community compost bins and worm farms will be added and it will be mulched over before I plant my spring seeds and flowers in about a month. A very valuable cycle to rest and then feed the soil.”

We get it Costa. Weeding and maintaining a garden is tough business for the best of us.

Originally published as Neighbours shocked at state of Costa Georgiadis’ backyard