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Garden design & native plant specialist

Named “best of the best” past 15yrs by
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The revolution they say starts in your garden • Turn your garden into a habitat haven of relaxation, rest and entertainment

Indigenous and Native Plants sourced from local plant nurseries
Water and Drought Tolerant plants used
Smart water saving irrigation, planning, techniques and design
Recycled Materials used and utilised into design and construction

10+ yrs of industry experience and Knowledge

12/11/2026

Keen on 1:1 sessions

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09/11/2026

Why plant local? 🌿

Local plants have co-evolved with our soils, climate and wildlife. They feed generalist pollinators and the specialists that can’t live without them, plus the caterpillars that help feed our small birds.

Diversity first, local at the core. Even a patch makes a difference.

Now booking 2027. Tap the link in bio to book a chat.

09/11/2026

A lifelong goal, ticked off. 🌿

Our Evandale garden is in the November issue of Gardening Australia (“Triple Treat”, from page 28), and I’m still grinning about it.

But the real story isn’t the magazine. It’s what a garden like this does. It brings local plants back to a suburban block, gives birds, bees and lizards food, water and shelter, and gets richer every year instead of needing more from you.

A garden is one of the biggest investments you’ll make in your home. If you’re going to make it, make it one that pays back for the next 20 years, for you and for everything that lives there.

We’re now booking garden designs for 2027, from first sketch through to the last plant in the ground. Tap the link in bio to book a chat.

05/11/2026

Thinking about a garden overhaul but dreading the process? Here’s how it works with us. 🌿

1. Book a chat. Tell us about your space and what you’d love it to become.
2. Site visit. We read the soil, sun, slope and the vegetation that belongs on your patch.
3. Design & planning. A design drawn for your site and for local wildlife, with a planting plan where every plant has a job.
4. Construction liaison. We’re your go-between with the landscapers and builders, so the design gets built the way it was intended.
5. Plants sourced & laid out. We source every plant, set them out to plan and plant it out with the crew.
6. Your ecological oasis. A garden that gets richer every year and keeps paying you back.

The proof is in the pudding: our Evandale garden, delivered exactly this way, is in the November issue of Gardening Australia Magazine 🥹🌱.

You just have to say yes. We’ll take it from there.

Now booking garden designs for 2027. Tap the link in bio to book a chat.

05/11/2026

I wrote an article for Sanctuary magazine called “Less lawn, more life?” and here’s the gist. 🌿

Our suburbs are dominated by lawn. It’s thirsty, it often gets chemicals and fertiliser, and on the driest inhabited continent we water it just to keep it green. Meanwhile it gives very little back to local wildlife.

So here’s the question I asked in the article: if you have lawn at home, do you really need it? And if you do, could you make it smaller?

At our place, the front yard and parts of the back have been native garden for eight years. It’s become a habitat hotspot, honeyeaters visit, and the kids never ask where the lawn went. They’re too busy looking for bugs and exploring the understorey of the mallee.
If every one of us swapped even a small part of our lawn for local native habitat, together we’d create the bridges wildlife needs to move through the suburbs.
You can tackle it yourself (your local native nursery, council, environment centre or volunteer group are great places to start) or bring in a garden designer.
Less lawn, more life. 🐦🐝🦎

Now booking garden designs for 2027. Tap the link in bio to book a chat.

Photography: Jarrod Priestly / Sanctuary magazine

01/11/2026

Another design draft that I'm hoping to bring to fruition with minimal tweaks.

Being in the Adelaide Hills, this has a great canopy already, so we're looking at lots of understorey local native species, but also an open sunlight patch that gives a great space for growing productive vegetables and herbs.

There's a deck for seating, chilling out, and enjoying the frontage. Plenty of dry stone rock walls for low retaining of some of the garden beds, as it does slope a bit, and a rain garden swale that will catch a big portion of the watershed that comes down the front of the property.

Just really focusing on flow and connection to the garden, and where we can find those opportunities to rest, engage, and really connect with nature.

30/10/2026

Conceptual design made with an ecological sensibility to re-green the suburbs with appropriate local plant species, bridging the gap we need for increased biodiversity within our suburbs.

30/10/2026

Pre-drafting, working out the bones and skeleton of a 2,000 m² site that has some cool natural elements we are checklisting off:

• Kangaroo-proof fence (don't worry, the kangaroos have plenty of space outside of this area, it's just a zone to keep them from munching away at all the vegetation)
• Pink gums and sheoaks
• Xanthorrhoea grass trees
• Wallaby grass patches
• Poa tussock patches
• Spillway riparian zones
• Rockscape garden
• Existing pink gum and stringybark vegetation surrounding the property
• On-site spoil to create mounds and hollow sections
• Native wispy grass ground cover
• Open clearing for chill-out zones

Interaction with nature, connection to land, all of the good stuff.

And much, much more, so on and so forth.

29/10/2026

When designing gardens for homeowners and clients, there are so many things you have to factor in:
• Water, soil, boundaries, existing vegetation, and potential vegetation
• The footprint of the structures and the home
• What the aspect and slope are
• Current problems and potential solutions
• What the client is hoping for versus what is realistic
• The local bioregion and climate
• Where the sun is hitting and where it isn't
• How the home is placed in accordance with the garden
• Zone 1, Zone 2, and Zone 3
• Front and back entrances, and the transition between public and private space
• Neighbouring properties and how they affect the site
• The size of the land
• Where the prevailing breeze is coming from

You can keep going, and so on and so forth. There are so many factors to take into account, so the 2D concept or design you see is normally just the tip of the iceberg of what has been created.

29/10/2026

This is by far one of my favourite designs

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Sheidow Park
Adelaide, SA
5158

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