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Landscape Construction – recently built gardens, how and why they are growing.

The time from designing a new garden to landscape construction can sometimes be years. Often we work on plans for new houses that don’t exist yet. With the time it takes to design the garden itself, plan for the house, engage a builder, and build the house it can be a long process. By the […] Read more

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The Plants Are Taking Over – Observations and attitudes on weeds, through the eye of a garden designer

What is the Definition of a weed?‘A plant in the wrong place’ There are environmental and agricultural weeds, ultimately in the home garden, a weed is the plant you don’t want. There are degrees of this ie: does it have runners like Bamboo (the Phyllostachys kind not clumping Bambusa) Does it seed prolifically, spread, and […] Read more

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Home Gardens & Garden Design

What makes a great garden? I have traveled between Canada and Australia a lot over the years. A love of photography and gardens led me to explore different neighborhoods and photograph gardens along the way. Photographing details of home gardens and those created by landscape designers in Melbourne, Canada, and Europe – See the grand […] Read more

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Plant set out & garden design

How important is the plant set out in the overall landscape design? The setting out of the plants is a very important part of the overall garden design and construction process. If we are now at the planting stage we should have a great landscape plan to work from that everyone is excited about. All […] Read more

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Botanical Travel

Perennials & Inspiration

Inspiration can come from many places. I remember my excitement when I began studying horticulture, realising that what I was studying was everywhere. Read more

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Media: Dwell

Our recently completed Ivanhoe landscape design project with Pleysier Perkins was featured in Dwell magazine. Read the full article here Read more