Looking for a professional Landscape Architect who services the Otways and coastal Victoria area?

Considering a landscape project? Or maybe you are a do-it-yourself looking for ideas? Landscape consultation is only the beginning of something beautiful: an ever changing, personalised design.

Sometimes a full detailed garden design is not necessary, especially if you are hands on in the garden...

You may need help to organise the outdoor space and to create a design without selecting all the plants and materials. This is usually the first step for all our design projects.

A Landscape Master Plan can help you to realise the project in several phases.

Our garden designs will integrate functionality, aesthetics and sustainability which are, for us, the key aspects of a good landscape project. Above all the essence of a successful creation is your vision: we endeavour to create a landscape you will feel a part of.

New development... Need to anchor your new dwelling into the broader landscape?

Landscape makeover... Overgrown mature garden in need of a new start?

In both cases, the design process will ensure advantage is taken of the positive elements while reducing as much as possible the impact of negative elements, within and outside the boundaries of your property.

Planning to build a new house? Consider integrating the processes of the landscape and building design.

Too often landscaping is not considered until after a building is completed. Landscape design ideally is part of the wider design process, allowing interaction between the building orientation, building design, site conditions, and proposed landscape development. This presents the best opportunity for maximising the landscape benefits to the home and its occupants in terms of energy efficiency and aesthetics.

A landscape makeover is often needed if existing sites are not correctly planted or if their maintenance has been neglected over the years.

This is an ideal occasion to consider adding more style and character to your garden.

Good communication is integral to achieving this personalised design, so before we start any work, we will listen to your ideas, priorities and dreams about your own landscape.

We can generally adapt our design to any budget.

We can help you to choose the right person/company to realise the project that we have designed and we can supervise the installation to ensure the quality of the works and the respect of the design.

When overseeing the realisation of our designs, we will carefully select all the plants and materials to ensure superior quality.

The first step for any work we do is a detailed study of the site. This survey includes all the physical elements within the site but also in the surroundings. This is the basis for the analysis which will determine the positive and negative elements that, in turn, will govern the project. In the case of a new development, this survey is also useful to determine the best location to integrate the buildings and accesses.

Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioural, and/or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape and the design of interventions that will produce the desired outcome. The Landscape Study is the synthesis of all those investigations and provides a decisional tool before any intervention is made to the landscape.

In some areas, new developments can become an issue in regard to the various planning overlays (Landscape Significance, Neighbourhood Significance,...). A visual impact study with the option of a specific landscaping solution can help you obtain the authority's approval.

We can also create photographic simulation(s) of the new development with and without landscaping to help you, and the planning authorities, visualise and appreciate the visual impact within the surrounding landscape.

If you live in an area prone to bushfire, you need to know whether your property is a bushfire hazard and how best to protect it.

It is possible to reduce fire risks on your property to protect your family, your pets and livestock, your home and garden in a way that limits the impact on your property's native vegetation and fauna.

We can help you to achieve those goals with a specific analysis of your property to create a landscape design that will conciliate bushfire preparation and conservation objectives.

Living in or near the bush is a real pleasure but it is inseparable with the risk of bushfire. Being part of that nature implicates that we shouldn't fight against it, but should respect it and work with it.

To mitigate fire risk, landscaping, plant selection and placement, as well as management during the fire season, are important keys that should be considered before any dramatic clearance actions.

Gardens with native plants can be just as firewise as gardens with exotic plants. It all depends on intelligent design and maintenance. Exploiting the assets of the landscape to provide some degree of protection and also modifying any undesirable aspects offers many opportunities to reduce destruction of buildings in a very cost-effective manner.

Reconciling bushfire preparation and native vegetation management is a challenge that requires fire services, environmental managers and residents to work together.

You are planning a new developments and will have to comply with various planning overlays (Environmental Significance / Landscape Significance / Neighbourhood Significance). To obtain your planning permit, a landscape survey of your property and/or a landscape plan are often required to show how your development will blend into the existing landscape.

A visual impact assessment with the option of a specific landscaping solution can help you to obtain the authority’s approval.

You will have to demonstrate how your proposed development will comply with bushfire safety and native vegetation legislation in order to get a planning permit. We can help.