Stirling Award Winner

Project Overview

Creating a garden and landscape design for clients who were living overseas. 

 

Project Details

This was an interesting and challenging project initially as our clients Antonia, Rick and their two daughters were living in Hong Kong during the entire consultation and construction process. After numerous discussions with Antonia via email and Whatsapp, l felt like l had enough information to proceed with a detailed landscape design. 

The house on the property had officially had a renovation but in fact it was totally rebuilt but reflected the old cottage which was known as “The Whitehouse”. After the rebuild the property was a bit of a mess so besides 3 trees I wanted to keep ,the remainder of what was left of the garden was to be cleared which left us a total blank canvas . 

Our clients are very clean and neat by nature as was their sparkly new Whitehouse so the design and the garden that resulted  would need to reflect and embrace these stipulations and criteria. Although the house was new and slick it still was a weatherboard cottage with some stone used in places. The general feel of our design was to be a modern cottage garden. 

 We needed numerous retaining walls on the property and were able to source stone locally that was very similar to the tones of the one used in the house. We placed some large boulders in situ at the rear of the property to retain a large bank and then constructed some beautiful Carey Gulley curved dry stone walls that would wrap around the front lawn and garden. We installed a bold flat top white picket fence along the front of the property and two large automatic vehicle gates of the same material which complimented and engaged with the house. 

 In the rear of the property we constructed a pergola with climbing roses at the entrance and a double wisteria growing on top. The large exposed aggregate driveway also took up similar tones of the stone walls  so all the hard landscaping parts of the project were very cohesive. Being on a busy exposed corner block we planted hedges around the edge of the property and internally planted large drifts of “pretty” perennials for Antonia and her two girls . A vertical timber baton screen with weld mesh panels was also installed to block out the neighbours.

Outcome

As we constructed this garden and even more so now when we maintain the garden, we always get people walking by admiring, enjoying and commenting on what a beautiful garden we have created. Recently, it was featured in the 2023 SA Landscape Festival.

Our clients and their two daughters were used to living in high rise apartments and now just love being in their own garden.  Its such a pleasure being given the privilege to create such spaces for people to enjoy and is certainly one of the more fulfilling parts of what we do as designers,landscapers and gardeners.

 

Master Landscapers SA Awards of Excellence
Residential Landscape Construction in it’s category

Our Favourite Elements

• Custom Gabion Bench and Screen
• Carey Gulley curved dry stone walls
• Picket fence integrated with large automatic gates