Find your style Our 4 signature garden styles.
No two gardens are the same, but consistent themes keep emerging in the work we do. We've organised these into 4 distinct, named styles. A useful way to identify your own preferences and start narrowing down material choices.
The Bushland Naturalistic. Native. Of the place it sits in. Read more The Bushland Naturalistic. Native. Of the place it sits in. The meticulously designed to look natural garden. Highly functional, naturalistic plantings, materials designed to age gracefully, dense planting layers that if done poorly look messy, and when done right look like a piece of art. The hardest of the four to pull off. Close × The Headland Bushland with salt in the air. Read more The Headland Bushland with salt in the air. Bushland's coastal cousin. Many of the same naturalistic design principles just with a distinct enough plant and material palette that it deserves its own distinct style. Pandanus, low coastal natives, weathered timber on the deck. A homage to the SE QLD coastal paradise we live in. Close × The Pavilion Palm Springs by the sea. White, bright, immaculate. Read more The Pavilion Palm Springs by the sea. White, bright, immaculate. The garden that feels like a luxury resort. Brilliant white render, an aqua pool, sculptural cacti and palms where you'd usually find hedging and lawn, crazy paving in pale stone underfoot. Only works when it's fully committed; half measures look clinical rather than bold. The most photographed of the four when it lands. Close × The Estate Formal, composed, gracious. Read more The Estate Formal, composed, gracious. The traditional formal garden. Clear geometry, clipped buxus and olive standards, a manicured lawn that makes golf courses blush, cobblestone driveway. English country estate-influenced, adapted to QLD conditions. The most demanding of the four, but that is the point: a symbol of order in defiance of nature's chaos, and the labour of maintaining it is what gives these gardens their beauty. Close ×
Most projects embody one of these styles and borrow a detail or two from another. Working out which style is yours is usually the first thing we talk about.
