Brief

Our clients had just built a new house on a steeply sloped block. They wanted a pretty but low maintenance garden created at the front. At the rear, they wanted a series of flat areas, to maximise space for their children to play and to house a garden shed.

Solution

We softened the steep slope at the front of the property to an elegantly sloping curve. A stunning, advanced Cercis Forest Pansy was planted as a feature to eventually form a canopy above the carpet of textures and colours below. Foliage and flowers are in rich purple, red and crimson, accented with crisp pink and lime green. Over time, the Lilly Pilly hedge, Buxus borders and standard ficus will form tightly clipped structures to contrast softer, more dynamic plantings.

At the rear, we created three flat terraces, connected with bluestone and rendered brick walls. The upper terrace offers a large lawn area. The middle, space for a trampoline and more lawn and the lowest, provides for the garden shed. From the house, the view of the trampoline is softened by Miscanthus grass and that of the shed by a spectacular Silver Birch tree.