A whole-of-property redesign across a sprawling rural block — zoned for living, entertaining, and letting the land breathe.
The brief
A family relocating from the city to a large rural property wanted the garden to honour the landscape they'd moved into rather than impose on it. They envisioned distinct zones — a productive kitchen garden, a shaded entertaining terrace, a wildflower meadow, and a wide buffer of indigenous grasses that blended the garden into the paddock beyond. Scale and simplicity were the guiding principles.
Our approach
We zoned the two-and-a-half acre property into five distinct areas, each with a different character and maintenance demand. The entertaining terrace is anchored by a large spotted gum pergola and framed by dense hedging for wind protection. The kitchen garden sits behind a traditional post-and-rail fence with raised beds built from reclaimed railway sleepers. The meadow was seeded with a custom mix of native grasses and wildflowers tuned to the site's soil and rainfall. Existing mature trees were retained throughout and became the skeleton of the whole design.
