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The key to good garden design is landscapers getting the ‘bones’ right. Good garden design relies upon landscapers either working with existing natural or built structures or creating that structure or ‘bones’ from scratch, whether it be a large formal suburban garden or small contemporary courtyard.
There is nothing more satisfying and exciting for landscapers than to revisit
one of their garden designs that has been nurtured, tendered and loved by the owners to grow towards maturity and fulfil the garden designer’s original vision.
Living Colour Landscapes had that experience recently whilst revisiting a large suburban garden designed and constructed by our team of landscapers 5 years ago. We spent a delightful late autumn afternoon wandering around the garden with the owner, marvelling at the play of light on richly coloured autumn leaves, swaying grasses and clipped Box hedges. Autumn is when this garden is at its most colourful with bronzes, blazing clarets, yellows and oranges set against the tapestry of greens.
This garden was redesigned around the existing house, designed and built in the 1940’s which lent itself to a classical and romantic format with sweeping hedges of Box and topiary planting at strategic points along the pathways. Beautiful established Eucalyptus trees and exotic deciduous trees added a cathedral like presence to this large North Shore property and formed the ‘bones’ of the garden design.
Outdoor spaces or rooms were created with taller hedging plants such as Syzigium and Murraya to echo the home’s architectural elements and to create backdrops for colourful sculptural plants and a large variety of native and exotic grasses that the owner has a particular passion for.
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