Creative Organic Landscapes

23/01/2025

I recently completed a sensory garden for a client who is blind and deaf. The scope of works required a water feature, an egg swing, a bridge through the garden and different surfaces for the client to walk on in bare feet. Of course it needed many sensory plants to invoke the senses of touch, taste and smell. The plant selection also looks pretty and none of the plants are toxic. The obvious choices are herbs, but this garden has native bush food plants, perfumed climbers and shrubs, velvety feeling leaves and even some rough feeling plants to provide interest. The mosaic pebble section near the water feature will be good for walking on and tracing the patterns with curious hands. It gave me a lot of pleasure creating this garden for someone who really needs it.

23/01/2025

What to do with a sloping garden? If you’re on a small budget, and not up for putting in lots of retaining walls and structures, it could be as simple as putting in a few rocks and plants. This one we just did will grow into something quite low maintenance but with good street appeal.

Be sure to use trailing plants and plants that bind the soil to help retain it. When planting, build a well around each plant to prevent water running down the slope away from the plants when watering.

24/10/2024

I love a natural area, and building this boardwalk near a dam so a client could enjoy walking all the way around it was a simple, fun project. Tuff blocks were used for the foundations, which meant no digging holes, and it can be moved if necessary. 120 indigenous tube stock were planted as well, but they are impossible to see.

24/10/2024

It's always satisfying to see results for simple things in the garden. Whether it's pruning roses and watching them re-grow with a multitude of flowers, taming a wild hedge or making a nice clean edge to a brick path.

29/08/2024

Another garden completed. I had the chance to design a formal parterre style garden. This one has espaliered apples and pears, olives and dwarf citrus. With box hedge, herbs and scented plants, hopefully in time it will grow into a lovely garden for the clients. Thanks to All Round Landscapes for their hard work to make my design come to life.

06/05/2024

Another garden completed. With a white and pink scented flower theme, this one has beautiful flowering plants such as camellias, gardenias, evergreen magnolias, a snowball tree, daphne, azaleas and seaside daisies. It will be wonderful when it grows, creating hedges on the boundaries. All with a new curved steel edging for ease of mowing, and a pop up irrigation system with remote node.

06/05/2024

Have you got hedges that need a trim? Contact me to arrange a time to get them done.

18/07/2023

18/07/2023

Another garden done and dusted. I can’t wait for this one to grow so we can see the true intention of the design. It’s a coastal garden for a new build in Gippsland so the plant choices were for sandy loam. The brief was for an informal native plant garden. Some of the plants to note are Gymea Lily, Kangaroo Paw, Waratah, Lilly Pilly, Banksia Birthday Candles, Lomandra Tanika, Cushion Bush, Eucalyptus preissiana, Eucalyptus macrocarpa, Westringia Funky Chunky, Corymbia Wildfire, Grevillea Honeygem and Correa alba. A few (non native) leucadendrons were included for their contrasting foliage. Included was a timber sleeper feature and sandstone path to the washing line. Kikuyu patches in the rye grass seeded lawn will eventually grow out and take over to make a nice lawn. over 40 cubic metres of soil needed to be imported on this job. Credit to All Round Landscapes for their hard work constructing it with me.

12/07/2023

I’m currently replacing all the irrigation drippers for over 600 rose pots which reminds me…….Do you need any rose pruning done? Now is the perfect time and I can do it for you. Message me to organise a time.

22/06/2023

Far from being just a designer and landscape gardener, I like to do side jobs like this small fencing fix up project. Getting on the tools is one of my favourite things.

23/03/2023

A nice little courtyard tidy up. Brief was to put in some low maintenance plants that provide flowers, a few herbs and smell nice. Plant list is Chinese Star Jasmine (climber to cover the fence), Liriope Samantha(strappy), Westringia Low Horizon (groundcover), Lavender The Queen, Rosemary Chef's Choice, Dichondra Silver Falls (groundcover) and Limonium perezii for the planter. Added some mulch and pavers to complete it.