9 Essential Tips for Designing a Stunning Garden

Stunning Garden

When it comes to landscaping, creating a garden that is not only visually appealing but also functional can be a rewarding endeavour. A stunning garden is more than just a collection of plants; it’s a carefully planned space that harmonises with nature and reflects your personal style. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a beginner,…

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12 Advantages of a Professionally Designed Garden

Great landscape design offers a multitude of benefits that enhance the visual appeal, functionality, and overall value of a property. Here are some advantages of having a professionally-designed landscape. 1. Aesthetics: A visually pleasing landscape design can significantly enhance the overall appearance of any property. By incorporating elements such as colourful flowers, well-maintained lawns, and…

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5 Landscape Design Ideas to Improve Your Outdoor Entertainment Area

Creating an outdoor entertainment area that seamlessly merges beauty, comfort, and functionality requires careful consideration of landscape design elements. Whether you’re hosting a summer barbecue, a cozy gathering around a fire pit, or a casual evening under the stars, here are five landscape design ideas that can transform your outdoor space into a captivating entertainment…

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6 Benefits of a Well Designed Garden

Landscape design plays a crucial role in creating a well-planned and aesthetically pleasing garden. An expertly and beautifully designed garden offers numerous benefits that enhance your quality of life, the environment, and your property. Here are six key benefits of a well-designed garden: Aesthetic Appeal: A well-designed garden is visually appealing and creates a pleasing…

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Designing a landscape on a steep block

Landscape design

Designing a landscape on a steep block can be both challenging and rewarding. The key is to make the most of the natural contours of the land while ensuring functionality, safety (non slip), and aesthetics. Here are some steps and tips to help you create a beautiful landscape design for a sloping block: Site Analysis:…

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Three Things to Consider When Planting Out a Coastal Garden

Designing a coastal garden requires careful consideration of the specific challenges presented by the coastal environment. Plants found naturally in this habitat have adapted over long periods of time to cope with the harsh environment. Below are the three key elements and challenges to overcome, for your coastal garden is to be successful: Salt Tolerance:…

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5 ideas for landscaping all year round

Here are five ideas to consider when landscaping for all year round. Plant Selection: Choose a diverse range of plants that offer interest in different seasons. Incorporate a mix of evergreen trees, shrubs, and groundcovers to provide structure and colour throughout the year. Select plants with varying bloom times, ensuring you have flowers in spring,…

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Landscape Design Principles – Scale, Balance and Proportion

Shape and Form landscapers are Melbourne’s Inner Eastern suburbs, premier choice for landscaping. Continuously following the design principles of scale, balance and proportion, to create more than just a landscaped area, but the finest quality artistry, when planning every outdoor design.   Balance Our Melbourne-based landscapers achieve balance through the repetition of size, shape, and…

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5 Landscape Design Principles To Guide Your Garden

Designers often consider the four design principles to be order, proportion,repetition, transition and unity, with emphasis placed on cohesion and visual interest.Whether the sprawling gardens of an expansive estate or the small space backyard of asingle family home, green spaces have the potential to transform an entire property. Byfollowing these four landscape design principles, homeowners…

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5 Building Blocks of a Good Landscape Design

Just as the interior of your home must complement the architecture and honour the landscape, the design of your home’s exterior must also respond to the needs of your family and the history of your site. From the tenets of colour theory to the philosophy of Feng Shui, landscape design is informed by both the…

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Improve the value of your home through landscaping – 5 steps

A beautifully landscaped yard will instantly boost the kerb-appeal of any home. If you are looking to sell your home, do not underestimate the power of your landscape. A welcoming landscape can make a home feel extra cozy and inviting. A well designed and maintained garden area shows potential buyers that you care about your…

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Landscaping Ideas to Improve your Properties Value

The property market can be very volatile at times with prices going up and down depending on markets and economy. Lately more so down than up! However, by and large, owning a property is a very solid investment and many people have seen the value of their properties increase significantly over the years. Building equity…

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How To Choose The Right Landscape Professional

If you love spending time outdoors in your garden, one thing you naturally want is for the area to look awesome! The aesthetic appeal of your garden can have a big impact on how relaxed you feel when you are outside, so it is well worth investing in your outdoor area. When your garden is…

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5 Tips For a Winter Landscape Design

Winter is just around the corner and while people in Europe generally lock themselves indoors for the winter, the beauty of Melbourne (or Australian weather in general) is that we don’t have to! Implementing good landscape design practices is a fantastic way to ensure your yard is not only utilised during the colder months but…

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What To Expect From An Initial Design Consultation

YES – Questions about what you want to achieve with your garden YES – Questions that will give your designer a better understanding of your taste and style YES – Some suggestions based on your answers YES – A fee proposal for producing a landscape design NO – A complete comprehensive solution to your garden including plant selection NO – Recommendations or thoughts without first…

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How To Choose The Right Landscape Designer

Designing your outdoor space from scratch or renovating an existing space is exciting, but can often be overwhelming. It is a process that takes time, perception, vision and experience to execute correctly. An experienced landscape designer should bring these attributes to your project, helping you create your perfect garden. Choosing the right landscape designer can…

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Curling Bluestone

What is curling bluestone and why does it affect specifically bluestone paving? I have personally had an area of bluestone paving curl after I had laid it. Up until that point I had never encountered this before. I’m hoping this article, will give you some insight into what the term ‘bluestone’ means, why some bluestone…

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Five Questions You Need To Ask Yourself

There are 5 questions you should ask yourself before you engage a landscape professional to complete any work. Not asking these questions may turn out to be costly. 1. Are they a member of the Landscape association? Landscape Associations are a great place to begin. They continually educate there members with new products and changing techniques in.…

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What Is The Difference Between Landscaping And Gardening?

Some people I meet, when I’m out and about, seem to get gardeners and landscapers mixed up. Or to be more precise they can’t determine the difference between the two. I often get phone calls from people wanting me to maintain and weed there gardens on a regular basis. When I politely tell them that…

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Autumnal Colour

It sneaks up on you – autumn that is. I was paving a client’s front courtyard last week, when I saw a deep red coloured leaf fall from an ornamental pear tree. My initial thought was ‘bit early, its still hot’, but then I realised that it is in fact late march, and that autumn…

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Landscaping and the Law

2005 the Victorian Building Authority (VBA) passed an amendment to the law, that stated – any work in excess of $5,000.00 needed to be carried out by a landscaper who is a licensed/registered builder. The VBA then created a sub-category to the main Domestic Builder license and named it Domestic Builder Limited – Structural Landscaping. Any landscape company that…

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Hedge Your Bets – A Quick Overview

Hedges are a bordering and design tools used for dividing spaces. They enclose and subdivide fields, orchards, yards, parks and gardens. They form vegetative walls, garden rooms, gateways, screens and enclosures, within the garden landscape. It is believed that the Romans may have first planted hedges in Britain however most of the few ancient hedges…

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