The Garden Practice
The Studio Behind the Spaces
Our Story
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The Garden Practice has a simple belief: a garden should slow life down, and support the life you want to live. What started as a desire to listen more carefully to place, light and topography grew into a studio built around thoughtful planting and the everyday rituals of living outdoors. Today, we work across high-end residential gardens with the same curiosity and care, creating gardens that are abundant without feeling overworked, resolved without losing their sense of place, and designed to feel as though they have always belonged there.
Our Approach
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Personal Approach
Designed Around You
Every project begins with listening: how a family moves through their days, what they value, and how a garden should feel once it's lived in. We design around real routines and the rhythms of your life, rather than following trends.
Material Focus
Beauty in the Details
From natural stone and considered planting to proportion, light and spatial flow, every element is chosen with purpose. The result is a garden that feels cohesive, grounded and enduring.
Lasting Design
Made to Endure
We balance contemporary design with timeless planting and materials, creating gardens that feel considered today and continue to feel resolved, generous and connected to place for years to come.
About Candice Teok
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Gardens Shaped by Place and Feeling
Candice founded The Garden Practice from a belief that a garden should do more than complete a house. It should change the pace of life around it. Her approach grows from a fascination with plants and the way they shape not only space, but atmosphere; how a garden can create privacy, calm, beauty and a stronger connection to the natural world. At the heart of her work is a simple idea: every garden should feel deeply personal to the people who live there, natural to its setting, and more beautiful with time.
A Decade Spent Refining an Eye for Detail
A Registered Landscape Architect with more than a decade of industry experience, Candice spent formative years at Melbourne practice OPENWORK and Ben Scott Garden Design, where she developed a disciplined eye for detail within a culture of craft and design excellence. That rigour continues to shape every project, from layered planting plans and material selection to the way landscape, architecture and construction are coordinated as one whole.
Working Within a Wider Community of Practice
Candice works closely with homeowners, architects, builders and developers to bring complex projects to life, and her contribution to the profession extends beyond her own studio. She has taught into the Landscape Architecture program at RMIT University since 2016 and served as Chair of the AILA Victorian Chapter’s Education Committee. She holds a Master and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Distinction) from RMIT University.
Our Process
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Recognition
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