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As a boutique garden design business, we offer a custom garden design service.  Whether you desire a beautiful garden with space for entertaining and relaxation or want a planting design plan to make your garden pop, our approach is a custom design service. No cookie cutter design. Our spring garden article is focused on gardening

Banksia spinulosa ‘Birthday Candles’ is a compact small shrub and looks wonderful in a pot. Banksia prefer good drainage, so if you have clay soil, mix in organic matter such as mature compost with your garden soil and plant on a slight mound. There is still plenty to do in the winter garden. And when

Barwitian Wild Perennial Garden. This Open Garden is the creation of Garden Designer Ralph Bristow. Once the hot days have gone, autumn is the best time to plant or begin a new garden project. Plenty of warmth is left in the soil and hopefully there will be some soaking rain. Planting now encourages growth and

PLANT OF THE MONTH  Roses, Santolina, herbaceous Salvias, Hydrangea and those lovely native everlasting daisies (annuals or perennials). Too much to choose from for plant lovers. Hydrangea will be looking great for the next few weeks. Yes, they can be thirsty, but old-fashioned lace caps can thrive on the south side of the house with

Rhododendron ‘Pink Pearl’ “Spring into Gardening” is our September article in the Wombat Post publication. Spring is my favourite season as it offers us a sense of better times ahead. Spring offers the ‘wow factor’ in the garden and, more importantly, provides renewal. As the soil warms, delicate juvenile leaves unfurl on deciduous trees and

Winter In The Garden: Design Garden Ideas “Winter in the Garden” is our July article in the Wombat Post publication. One of my favourite shrubs is Luculia gratissima, enjoyed even more because it flowers in June and July when there aren’t many flowers about. It cheers me up on a cold grey day to see

Welcome to the magically season of Autumn when the light is perfect. I encourage you to do your research and plant a suitable tree. Planting trees in your garden can be both a landscape solution and a legacy for the future.  “Enjoy March in your Garden”, our recent publication in the Wombat Post will provide

So wonderful to be able to visit beautiful gardens such as Picardy Garden again, which are on our doorstep. Owners Marian and Bryce Somers describe Picardy Garden as ‘An Australian garden inspired by a passion for all things French’. This French style rammed earth home and outbuildings including mud brick barn and dovecote, plus the

Diane Beddison’s private garden is a beautiful garden built around the existing mature trees and shrubs inherited from the former garden and complements the historic Victorian brick home it surrounds.