Full Scope - Design and Delivery

Garden Design

For homeowners ready to create the garden as a whole. The studio develops the concept, planting, materials and builder-ready documentation, then stays involved as the garden is built and established.

Designed as one living whole.

Garden Design is for a property ready to be considered from first idea through construction and early growth.

The studio brings together spatial planning, materials, planting and technical detail, then stays involved with builders and consultants as the garden is made. A clear direction early in the process keeps later decisions working toward the same result.

Service Type

Full Garden Design

Service Scope

Design and Construction

Timeline

4-8 months

Availability

Start to Completion

Understanding your needs

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Your needs

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Every commission is shaped around how a family lives, gathers and rests outdoors. Most gardens we design share these qualities

Family Life

The experience of the home can continue outside rather than stopping at the door. Practical requirements can become part of the design rather than things that need hiding later.

Personal Retreat

A personal garden that supports you to live outdoors rather than sit apart from it. Easy to live with, never generic and low maintenance.

Adaptability

Evolve and Adapt

The garden evolves from an unused space to a private family garden that supports growth and development, wellbeing and daily living.

Environmental Care

With a deep respect for the land and its environment and resources it provides us, we design a garden that grows with it than against it.

How it works

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Uncertainty becomes direction. Direction becomes design. Design becomes a garden you retreat into.

Stage 01

Listen and observe

The experience of the home can continue outside rather than stopping at the door. Practical requirements can become part of the design rather than things that need hiding later.

Stage 02

Read the land

Levels, water, sun, wind, views, soil and existing vegetation, understood before they become expensive surprises.

Stage 03

Establish the North Star

From many competing ideas to one agreed direction, the filter for every decision that follows.

Stage 04

Design in detail

The agreed concept translated into clear information a landscaper can price and build from, with the planting resolved in full.

Stage 05

Stay with it

The original design thinking stays present as the garden becomes real, and after it is planted.

Finished space planning package with floor plan, layout options, and flow sheets on a walnut desk

Our Promise

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We stay with you and your property untiil you can say, this feels like ours.

Confidence before commitment

You will not be asked to move forward with a direction that does not reflect the agreed brief. We refine it until it does.

Ready to Build Clarity

Drawings that are drawn to high fidelity and detail. Where clarification is required, we remain available to explain the design.

Handover isn't goodbye

We stay connected as the garden establishes, with follow-up guidance over the following two years so the landscape has time to grow toward the vision.

Clarity you can work from

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Confidence before commitment. Before money is spent on individual pieces, you can see how movement, planting, future spaces and everyday life work together.

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Masterplan Drawing

Before money is committed to individual pieces, you can see how movement, planting, future spaces and everyday life work together.

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Clear Visualisations

Visualisations help you understand the scale, atmosphere, planting character and relationship to the house before major decisions are committed to on site.

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Technical Plans

Where technical documentation forms part of the commission, the design is translated into clear information that gives contractors something concrete to price, coordinate and build from.

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Planting Plan

Species, mature size, spacing, seasonal character and site conditions are considered together so the garden can feel full and alive without becoming another thing that constantly needs managing.

Inclusions

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From the first conversation to the final detail, our process brings structure, creativity, and close collaboration to every stage of your project.

01 Consultation & Concept

We uncover how you want to live outside, what is not working now, and what matters most, then translate that into a clear direction for the garden.

02 Considered Design

Planting, materials and spaces are selected for how they perform, age and fit your investment, so the design works in real life as well as on paper.

03 Before-We-Build Preview

Plans, material studies and visualisations help you see the key spaces, proportions and atmosphere clearly, so major decisions are made with confidence.

04 Builder Ready Documentation

We translate the garden into clear construction documentation so it can be priced properly, built accurately and with fewer expensive surprises on site.

05 Integrated Delivery

We stay involved with the builder and consultants, review key decisions and resolve design questions as they arise, so the original idea does not get diluted during construction.

06 Garden Establishment

We stay connected as the garden establishes, helping guide planting, care and design-related issues so the garden has the best chance to mature into what was originally intended.

You do not need to have the whole garden figured out.
You only need to know that it deserves more thought than it is getting now.

Enquire about the Garden Direction

Before we Begin.

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01 We have so many ideas, and they keep changing. How do we settle on one?

That is where most of our clients begin. The first stage brings every idea together into a single landscape framework, and once that direction is agreed it becomes the filter for every decision that follows. New ideas are still welcome; they simply find their place within the whole rather than pulling the garden in a new direction.

02 Can we build parts of the garden ourselves?

Absolutely. The construction drawings and planting plan are detailed enough for a contractor to price and build from, or for a capable homeowner to take on parts of the work with confidence, knowing what is built will make sense as a whole. Every plant is still set out on site by the studio before it goes into the ground.

03 How do we know it will be built the way it was designed?

The design does not end when the drawings are handed over. We remain available to contractors throughout the works, set out the planting on site and oversee it as it goes in, so the original thinking stays present as the garden becomes real. Follow-up guidance continues as the garden establishes over the following year.

04 Why should we work with a landscape architect?

Most of the cost in a garden is spent in the ground, and decisions made in the wrong order are the most expensive to undo. A path relaid, a tree removed, a pool in the wrong place. The design fee is what ensures that investment is spent once, in the right order, with every element working toward the same result.

05 Can you look at a pool as part of the session?

Yes, where these elements influence the broader landscape direction. We can help identify how they should relate to the garden, what should be resolved early, and where specialist consultant input may be required.

06 Our landscaper has offered to design it for free. What is the difference?

Many landscapers build beautifully, though design included in a construction quote is usually shaped around what they install. An independent design considers the whole property first: the levels, views, planting and how each space will be used. It is then documented so any contractor can price it, which means quotes can finally be compared on equal terms.

07 We have already spent a lot on the house. How do we keep the garden within the investment?

Investment is discussed openly from the very first conversation, so the design is shaped around a realistic investment rather than trimmed back later. Works can also be staged, with a clear plan for what is built now and what can wait, so nothing done first needs to be redone when the next stage arrives.

01 We have so many ideas, and they keep changing. How do we settle on one?

02 Can we build parts of the garden ourselves?

We work on high-end residential gardens, including new builds, complete garden transformations, planting-led projects and architect-designed homes. For clients who are still in the early stages, the Garden Direction Half-Day is a good place to begin before committing to a full commission.

03 How much should I expect to invest in my garden?

Professional design fees for the full Garden Commission differs for each project. Landscape construction investments typically begin from approximately $60,000 and increasing depending on the size, complexity, access, retaining, pools and material selections. For clients who are not ready for a full commission, the Garden Direction Half-Day is $1,850.