WELCOME
We're a landscape design consultancy based in Melbourne that creates smart, beautiful and sustainable gardens.
Gardens are not just show ponies, they’re for living in: nurturing spaces where you can rest, recharge and rediscover the pleasures of the natural world: the drone of native bees, the splash of trickling water, the sun on your face, birdsong in the air, the crunch of gravel underfoot, the rhythm of the seasons – an ever-changing tapestry of colour, texture, scent and harvest. A beautiful space in which to unplug, reconnect and nourish the body and spirit.
Our designs work hard so that you don't have to by working with – rather than against – nature to create abundant gardens that are not only beautiful and low maintenance, they will even lower your household energy costs thanks to passive solar design.
Apart from our residential work, our vision of abundant sensory havens for both people and wildlife has led us to design a range of public and private spaces including edible, therapeutic and sensory gardens, Food Forests and spaces designed for children to play in and explore.
If you have some ideas for your space, know what you want but don’t know how to get there, some tricky problems, want some creative possibilities or are just plain stumped about how to start, give us a call – we’d love to hear from you. We love helping people turn their dreams into gardens.
If you're a do-it-yourself kind of person, this site has plenty of information on sustainable approaches to organic and edible gardening, Food Forests, retro-fitting houses to be more energy efficient, water harvesting and much more. Don’t forget to click on the Pinterest button in the footer for more inspiration. There's a wealth of information here. Please explore.
COLLABORATE
Our designs turn your dreams into a garden. That means plenty of communication and collaboration – sharing and talking about your vision and hopes, the way you like to live, how you want your garden to feel, your needs, any issues to do with the site and how hands-on you’d like to be. Each garden we design is individual – each one looks and feels different because it is crafted around you, your needs and your dreams.
GOOD FOR EVERYONE
Gardens are not only homes for family and friends, but for a whole range of wildlife from the soil to the air. Designing with this in mind means encouraging beneficial insects, birds, and even aquatic life such as frogs and fish. It means healthy soil teeming with life that sustains and supports strong, resilient plants. Like the body’s immune system, this approach relies on a strategy that prevention is better than cure and achieves this with a strong supportive web of ecology.
SMART + BEAUTIFUL
Our projects are exciting and rewarding for everyone involved. We love it when clients want to learn about the principles that inform the design process: the why of it all, not just the how. We love finding creative solutions to challenges, and building in elements that offer multiple benefits. We love the look of satisfaction on everyone’s face after a landscape has been installed that not only looks gorgeous but works hard - the result of a lot of back-end design ensuring that the garden is durable, resilient and low energy: smart and beautiful.
