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Landscaping & Garden Design
Designed landscapes, built by the people who design them
The best landscapes aren't decorated — they're designed. Levels, sight lines, materials, planting structure and irrigation are resolved together, and then built by the same team, so nothing is lost between the drawing and the dirt.
We design for Adelaide's climate: hot, dry summers, winter-wet clay, and water restrictions that punish thirsty planting. That means hydrozoned irrigation, waterwise structural planting with proven Mediterranean and native species, and hard landscaping that gives the garden its architecture before a single plant goes in.
From courtyard renovations to full new-build landscapes, the process is the same — and you can scroll through it below, from bare site to established garden.
Designed for this climate, not a catalogue
Adelaide gardens live through 40-degree February weeks and wet clay winters. We design planting in hydrozones — thirsty greenery near the house where it earns its keep, tough natives and Mediterranean species further out — over irrigation that waters roots, not footpaths. The result stays alive on a water bill you can live with.
Structure comes first: levels, retaining, drainage and hard surfaces set the bones, then soil preparation gives plants an actual chance. Half the failed gardens we rework were planted straight into builder's fill.
How your landscaping & garden design goes together
Every stage, in the order it has to happen.
The order is not a preference. Each stage exists because the one after it fails without it.
Bare site
A neglected yard — compacted fill, patchy grass, no structure.
Design
The design is set out on site — bed lines, levels and paved areas marked full-size before anything is built.
Shaping
Garden beds are cut, shaped and edged in steel. The plan is now visible in the ground.
Irrigation
Drip and spray zones are trenched and laid — hydrozoned so every planting area gets exactly what it needs.
Soil
Imported soil and conditioner go in, then mulch. The growing medium is built, not hoped for.
Trees
Advanced trees are craned in and set — instant structure that would otherwise take a decade.
Planting
Planting out in structured layers: screens, masses, accents, groundcovers.
Established
Golden hour on an established garden — architecture first, softness grown over it.
Straight answers
Landscaping & Garden Design — FAQs
Do you do design only, or design and construction?
Both, but we're at our best doing the whole job. Design-and-construct means the person pricing the build shapes the design, so the plan you approve is a plan that gets built as drawn — not value-engineered beyond recognition after tender.
What plants actually survive Adelaide summers?
Our planting palettes are built around proven performers for hot, dry sites: westringia, correa and eremophila among natives; rosemary, teucrium and olive among Mediterranean species; with feature structure from crepe myrtles, ornamental pears and advanced eucalypts where scale allows. Anything thirsty is confined to small, high-impact hydrozones near the house.
When is the best time to plant in Adelaide?
Autumn, without question — March to May. Soil is still warm, rains are coming, and plants get two mild seasons to establish roots before their first serious summer. Spring planting works with irrigation but goes into summer with less established roots. We build construction schedules around this where we can.
Can you work with a design I already have?
Yes. We regularly build landscape architects' documentation, and we're comfortable being handed a drawing set and delivering it faithfully. If we can see a buildability or cost problem in the documentation, we'll flag it before we price rather than variation you later.
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