Mont Albert Garden

Here's a garden I designed a few years ago in Mont Albert, Victoria...and it's growing up nicely!




























Client brief:

  • provide a design which we can install ourselves, on a small budget
  • do away with the front lawn
  • provide utility pathways (for  bins, etc.)
  • minimise the use of water
  • incorporate native and architectural plants



Before
My clients also saw the importance of providing an element of fun in this garden for their two young children as an alternative play area to the rear garden.

 Shade for the front rooms of the house was a major consideration which the clients remedied by using groupings of small deciduous trees in front of the windows.

The result was a blend of native and exotic species of grey, silver and greens, with highlights of foliage and flower colour, such as the burgundy Flax and several Kangaroo paws.

White gravel and pale grey paved paths offset the darker grey walls of house.

A fun, simple maze of lomandra amongst the gravel provides that sense of fun and a challenge for the kids to navigate.