Garden of Rooms
The brief here was to create an exciting garden. with a lot of plant interest, to enhance the beautifully restored and extended Hawthorn brick home. It was also essential that the garden provide numerous opportunities for outdoor living, and perhaps most importantly of all, that it be a garden which children would want to go out into! The garden is designed to flow right around the house.
It is a garden of room: one enters via a very distinctive hand-pebbled path in a Victorian grapevine pattern, reflecting the lovely lacework of the house. The rose and perennial plantings here relate to the period of the house. A more informal lawn garden with deep shrub borders leads around the side of the house, and extends into the 'Jungle Garden' - ideal for hide-and-seek! Over a short timber walkway, and one arrives at a timber deck, cantilevered over a reflective pool, where the planting starts to take on a Japanese feel.
A highly distinctive stone walkway then leads to the rear section of the garden, featuring a Japanese inspired teahouse - ideal for eating under cover, or for children who like to splash paint around! A swim spa is cleverly incorporated into the structure. Impressive random Mintaro slate paving extends out from the rear of the house, to the strongly shaped lawn, and a deep arc of plantings designed for year-round interest enfolds the rear of the garden.
Garden shed, clothesline, herb garden and utility area are all cleverly incorporated into the design.
