Garden Design Projects
Garden of seasons, play and productivity, Winchelsea Garden
The priorities for this garden was to create a haven for a young family, with fun spaces for play and for a productive garden, while ensuring that every dollar adds value!
The final design has a large circular lawn area at the rear with potager garden, fruit trees, fire pit and sandpit, while the front garden features billowing grasses and perennial flowers, massed small gum trees and native plants. Cost-effective gravel paths were selected to link the spaces and merge the driveway space into the garden, while clever plant selection and good preparation has reduced maintenance to a seasonal cleanup.
The fast-growing garden continues to increase the value of the property, and rewards its owners with a lifestyle steeped in nature and beauty.
French-inspired Urban Potager, Rippon-lea
The first step in renovating this bombshell site was to spend time discussing the clients needs and ideas, and identifying the opportunities the site offered.
By preparing two different and challenging sketch design options, we inspired the client to actively participate in the design process by cut-and-pasting their own combination of the range of offered solutions.
Resolution of the design through preparation of technical layout drawings guided the project through quoting and construction and allowed the contractor to also become an active part of the creative design process, while ensuring the outcome was just what the client had dreamed of.
Foliage-filled Entry Courtyard, Thirteenth Beach
This smallish garden area comprises the entry courtyard to an asian-inspired home at 13th Beach Resort on the Bellarine Peninsula. Confronted with a swathe of dull concrete, bare boundary fences and too-close neighbours, we were asked to find a more welcoming, and private, solution.
We sketched up two design options, resolved these into an agreed concept and drew up a landscape plan then assisted the client through the approval process, preparing estimates of the probable cost so there were no nasty surprises, calling for quotes and guiding the works through the construction phase.
The clients were so pleased with the outcome that the space was quickly filled with sculptures!
Dryland Garden, Caulfield
This garden brings together sustainable landscaping and funky design.
Low-maintenance is often a key requirement of clients, and this can be achieved using the same techniques that rank high for sustainability.. and help to control costs.
Strong geometric shapes of grass, gravel and pebbles were used to complement the horizontal architecture of the home. Natural rainfall is collected and detained onsite in a gravel-lined swale - a dry creek bed - allowing it to recharge natural underground water storage within the soil, and functioning as the main feature element of the garden.
Historic Garden Renovation, Geelong
Glenpanyall Homestead was constructed between 1849 and 1860, at which time the property had land holdings of around 2000 acres. In 2009 the last 7ac around the homestead was subdivided, and Perry was commissioned to prepare landscape plans with a focus on respecting the heritage of the site.
Early images of the property indicated an avenue of Almond trees existed along the driveway, which had been replaced by poorly-performing Maples, so new avenues of Fastigiate English Oak and Almonds were re-established. The landscape features recycled materials and period heritage details.
Careful assessment of the historic garden and the clients needs identified that limited water supply was an ongoing issue, so the design solution provided a stormwater harvesting and irrigation solution.