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Garden Refresh
Defined spaces were super-imposed on this garden by using corten steel edging at different heights and backfilling with new soil and mulch. No grass was required, so all other gravel spaces were filled with mid-sized pebbles. A new coat of oil was applied to the deck and a stair added as well as the irrigation drip lines, and timing system installed. Companion vegetables, herbs and indigenous edibles were placed through all the beds to soften the fruit trees and the corten edging.
Rooftop Beauty
The stunning views from this penthouse were enhanced by installing balcony height planters and filling them with tall grasses and prostrate rosemary that can withstand the wind and sun. The pergola needed a variety of large pots filled with climbing vines, creepers, and hardy natives to add colour and eventually further shade. Handy herbs like oregano, thyme and sage were planted in smaller spaces around the BBQ area and irrigation lines were connected to keep everything happy!
Tropical Melbourne Garden
What a challenge to create this garden in existing, defined concrete beds! First all the old soil was removed and replaced with a sand/soil mix for drainage and to avoid compaction. I chose a palm from Uruguay as a focal point in this tropical paradise, as it grows on nearly the same Parallel as Melbourne. A bottle tree and bromeliads, New Zealand flax, ginger, clumping bamboo, liriope, cannas, dwarf red cordylines, a stunning grass tree and prostrate acacia limelight all came together beautifully.
The front garden featured standard grevilleas, liriopes, nandinas and assorted groundcovers, with Teddy Bear Magnolias to mark the windows and fence line bed.
Welcome Home
A generous concrete parking area in the front yard needed softening with a wildflower, strappy plants, and grasses underplanting of the existing trees. The beds had compacted soil so, after breaking that up, compost and soil was piled up on both beds with a topping of mulch and the planting begun. The house-side bed had some old camellias as a backdrop, so a matching one was found to fill in a gap and a riot of flowers and small bushes were planted to soften the edges.
