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Sam Cox Landscape

Based in Melbourne, Australia, Sam Cox Landscape has been creating naturalistic Australian native gardens since 1999.

Sam Cox designs and builds native gardens in the Australian natural style pioneered by Ellis 'Rocky' Stones and Gordon Ford. Using soft edges, boulder outcrops, natural ponds and native plants, Sam continually works toward advancing the tradition of the natural garden in Australia.

10/11/2026

Open garden this weekend! Lisa and the team have been busy in the garden getting it ready for Open Gardens Victoria this weekend!

We’re opening on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November, from 10am to 4.30pm.

The garden has evolved over 28 years, with a mix of indigenous and Australian native plants, winding paths, ponds and waterfalls, all set within the surrounding bushland.

It’s a chance to wander through the garden, see how the plantings have developed over time, and enjoy the abundance of spring.

I’ll be talking about the garden and answering questions at 11am and 2pm on both days.

We’ll also be raising funds for the Wattle Glen CFA, with a great selection of native plants for sale and sausages on the sizzle.

05/11/2026

29/10/2026

This is not subtopia.

Merchant Builder homes are the some of the greatest examples of modern living in the Australian environmental context; sensitive to the landscape while giving the occupants constant connection outside through planned gardens.

This book by Alan Pert (Melbourne School of Design) and Philip Goad is a brilliant documentation of the how, why and when this formative group of creatives came to be.

Congratulations and thank you for bringing this history forward and hopefully inspiring a new generation to think about community driven urban design.

17/10/2026

Today we welcome APS Garden Design Study Group to our home.
This is the beginning of a busy open garden season.
Next week a US garden tour visits and then on the 14 th of November our home garden will be open with Open Gardens Victoria.
With good winter rain and a lot of work from Lisa the garden is very happy.
Then the 21st of November we open Merricks garden with Garden DesignFest 2026 for two days on the peninsula.
It’s always a pleasure talking gardens with gardeners.

17/10/2026

Reviewing our experimental camping platform on the dam. The Macrocarpa is aging well. Cut and built from green timber, it’s now sitting well amongst the eucalypt’s.

12/10/2026

Enjoyed seeing this Merchant Builder home fully immersed last week.
Natural Swimming Pools Aus
Design and build 2018

19/09/2026

We have never seen so many native bees in our garden. Pretty delightful.

18/09/2026

Satisfying to see so many frogs making our Red Hill pond home.

03/09/2026

Blackburn. Melbourne.
It was nice to visit our garden to see five years of growth. Allowing the building to settle.
Bower Architecture
Garden designed and built in place for place by Sam Cox Landscape

30/08/2026

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