project gallery

Pleached snow pears provide shade and privacy in the back yard.

Snow pears cast afternoon shadows on the lush backyard lawn.

Iris 'Jayceetee' in all its October glory.

Grey green tones of snow pear and New Zealand rock lily complement the dark grey and grey hardscape.

Snow pears and New Zealand rock lily line the side path.

The client's stone lantern nestled in the green foliage.

Custom bench nestles in the green and white front garden.

The fragrant garden overlooking a paved space for entertaining, shooting hoops or hopscotch. Photo’s Leanne Bertram PhotographyThe fragrant garden overlooking a paved space for entertaining, shooting hoops or hopscotch.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Iris japonica ‘Variegata’ massed below Blueberry Ash.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

One day the Jacaranda will provide dappled shade and a carpet of purple to this area. 

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

A simple courtyard space created outside the office.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Tulbaghia violacea ‘John Mays Special’ provides colour all year.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Pops of pale yellow Gazania brighten up a purple palette.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Rich blooms of Dianthus provide colour and fragrance in the fragrant garden.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Different deck levels link the garden to the raised house.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Screens help to create instant privacy until the Blueberry Ash start to screen.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Deck steps underlit with strip lighting create an entrance.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Street appeal.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Through the garden gate.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Up the garden path is the produce garden screened with espaliered citrus.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Fragrant Magnolia ‘St Mary’s’ and Pittosporum tobira ‘Miss Muffett’.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

Salvia ‘Caradonna’ against a sea of green.

Photo’s Leanne Bertram Photography

ghostly trunks of Eucalyptus mannifera rise through the lawn.

Radiating circles, increasing in lushness represent the regeneration following bushfire. I love the stone wall myself…..

Photo Scarlet Sykes-Hesterman

The pop of colour of Nerine sarniensis add another dimension to a grey and green palette.

Photo Scarlet Sykes-Hesterman

Form, texture and colour is what makes a garden

Wistow Bluestone drystone wall – hours of painstaking labour thanks to Ash from PTA Landscapes.

Grey green foliage highlighted against a turquoise wall. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

Metal screen offcuts re-purposed as mulch. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

brightly coloured box interiors against grey green foliage. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

powdercoated metal cylinders make great containers. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

cylinders and marine ply boxes make a changeable and moveable space. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

Banksia blechnifolia and Lomandra ‘Lime Tuff’ make up part of the native planting palette. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

Kangaroo Paw Detail. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

Recylcled timber screens can be reversed and interchanged. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

Kangaroo Paw Detail. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

Modular design makes this versatile and portable. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

Modular design makes this versatile and portable. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

Timber ply, recycled timber + plants = garden. Collaborators Heather Hesterman, Anna Murphy and Hamish Williams.

Photo Garth Henderson

Curved retaining wall echoes the existing curved pool

Lush lawn crying out for a towel!

Granitic sand, steppers and planting replaced a bitumen path.

Low retaining wall also doubles as a seat.

Did I mention the lawn? It’s Kikuyu Village Green if you want to know.

Outdoor entertaining and fireplace awaiting the pergola.

Vegetable garden using the client’s arbour

New curved pool fence to work with the existing pool shape.

Hours of water play ahead

Fairy arch and dinosaur garden with tactile poles all scaled for little people.

Serpentine log path leads to the fragrant garden.

Simple circular steppers lead through tactile and fragrant plants.

Water play and balancing.

New entrance with herbs and vegies at a wheelchair accessible level

Log steppers through the native grassland

A gravel path and a sand path to provide different textures underfoot

Sand path leading under existing trees

Native wildflower and grassland planting

A low brick wall is a seat for parents to stop and chat while the kids explore.