Flowers for my Valentine
I’ve been out in my garden picking flowers for my valentine and this is what I found. We have Salvia’s, Liriopes, Crepe Myrtles and a delightful smelling Philadelphus (mock orange), all in flower in Coburg over the summer.
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Planters in small spaces
Making the most of a small space with raised planters can be tricky.
Building raised garden beds can sometimes take up lots of valuable space and may appear too chunky for the space. Opposite to this is using lots of pots, which may or may not work. Pots are great but sometimes you want a more streamlined look. This is where I tend to go for steel planter boxes and cylinders.
These can be manufactured to whatever size I want and, are relatively simple to make and install.
Round, square, rectangles, narrow and high, short and squat to tier the garden. Anything you fancy.
Colours can be bright and showy, subdued and muted, it’s flexible, using a wide range of powder coat colours, or, Cor Ten steel for a more organic look.
These are 3 vastly different projects we have worked on recently;
a narrow bluestone terrace in a new build, a modern townhouse and a native garden with a lovely new paved terrace overlooking the garden, all dotted around Melbourne.
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A garden in Northcote and bike storage to go.
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Ascot Vale Garden
Here is a garden in Ascot Vale More
A small tree for a small garden
Corymbia ficifolia is the ideal tree for a small native garden. More
a little bit of native garden sunshine
This courtyard have been transformed from boring old gravel and step stones to a wonderful native garden, full of wild flowers. We first came upon this courtyard a couple of years ago. It was a classic new townhouse with lots of gravel and step stones, minimal landscaping. The developers actually did our client a favour because we didnt need to do much to transform it to what she wanted. We’ve replaced the step stones with a board walk which gets her from a to b, the old clothesline concrete right outside the living room is a great place to sit in the garden (we moved the clothesline out of sight!), and the rest, well it’s all native shrubs and ground covers that will cope on this site. The upshot, we think it’s a pretty nice garden to enjoy, from inside looking out, from a to b on the way to work, and, just to sit in and enjoy the sunshine. It’s a little bit of native sunshine, in Sunshine.
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Flowers in the city
We installed this garden about 6 months ago. More
colour in the garden
Is this colour in the garden? More
native garden in Brunswick
A classic single front terrace in Brunswick More
