This is small garden in Coburg we have recently completed. The client had an existing deck leading to a potential garden, along with some overlooking issues that needed to be addressed. The brief was to create a pleasant garden to sit in, space for a small vegetable garden and soften the fence line.
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While we were working on a neighbours front garden in West Brunswick, we ran into a client from a couple of years ago. I had prepared and garden design and layout for their back garden. The brief was to work within the existing levels, incorporate privacy from neighbours, outdoor storage, al fresco dining, vegetable garden beds and child friendlly play space. The levels worked well to divide the back yard into zones, allowing for outdoor seating (over what was a garage floor), step down to lawn & play area and vegie beds to the side.
The planting scheme was essentially native / indigeneous. My intent was to show colour contrast in the foliage. I think this is highlighted quite well by some of these shots taken in spring 2012. The combination of grevillea, eucalyptus ‘Silver Princess’ and leucophyta looks great!
Exciting times. A client emailed me in late August 2012 with some very stark photo’s of her courtyard. A small apartment with
MoreWe have just arrived back from a glorious few weeks at the beach. It’s always nice to get out of town for a bit over summer. Unfortunately along with the great weather at the beach, Melbourne has also experienced some very hot spells which is showing up as damage in the garden.
This is a front garden in Yarraville we developed in 2009. I had the opportunity to take another look. It’s always rewarding to go back
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