It’s a tale as old as time (or at least the past 30 years). An architect-designed, mid-century home goes up for sale, the property is sold… then demolished in favour of a new McMansion.
That was the likely fate of this 1969 house in Sydney’s Lindfield, but luckily, interior designer Amelia Hesketh, founder of Frank Designs, swooped in to save the day!
Since purchasing the property seven years ago, Amelia has completed a thoroughly sympathetic renovation. By sticking to her guns, and employing skilled craftspeople along the way, she’s created a home that captures the best of 1960s design, while supporting her young family’s lifestyle.
Craft and design are integral in influencing how materials are selected, used, and repurposed in modern society.
This notion forms the basis of Alternative Provisions – Craft Victoria’s latest exhibition featuring the work of six artists, makers and designers repurposing organic matter and discarded waste into beautiful and productive items.
From table lamps made from recycled waste glass, to fishing nets manipulated with masterful weaving and sewing techniques, discover the potential of conscious alternatives in this exciting exhibition.
Today we visit an inner city garden in Melbourne overflowing with greenery, brightly coloured annual plants, and fairies. Fairies everywhere!
This magical Fitzroy garden is part of the upcoming Open Gardens Victoria event, and will be open to visit on the 21st and 22nd of November. Georgina Reid of The Planthunter gives us a sneak preview.
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This suburban family garden in Hunters Hill has been tended to by the same owners since 2004, whose stewardship oversaw planting of an excellent foundation palette over the last decade. These loving efforts of the amateur gardeners have now been built upon by landscape architect Hugh Burnett.
The clients engaged Hugh and Ballast Landscape builders to add some structure to their beloved green space, uniting the many functions of this high-use space with its lovingly nurtured character.
The efforts of a landscape designer are usually concentrated towards the rear of the property, where a private sanctuary can be nurtured in relative privacy, hidden from the street. Not here!
This Camberwell project by Bethany Williamson Landscape Architecture is a celebration of the front garden. Subbing out the traditional lawn for a space layered with different heights, explosive colours and varied textures, this often overlooked domain is given all the attention it deserves!
The garden accompanying this Federation home in Mosman, Sydney was already beautiful and grand, but the design needed consolidating to suit the modern day.
Following a string of designers who worked on the garden in the past 100 years (the most recent being Peter Fudge), Wyer & Co stepped in to improve the functionality of the space.
The landscape designers have since updated the extensive 1412 square metre garden, tying it all together with a varied plant palette.
Practicality was the key driver behind this Sydney garden makeover, but the vision of property owner and landscape designer Julian Bombardiere, owner of Ballast Landscape, has resulted in a lush and inspiring, yet still functional, space.
With careful planning and expertise, Julian has turned the once barren backyard into a layered garden full of interesting plant life, spread across several multipurpose zones.
It’s safe to say that 2020 was the year almost EVERYONE was happy to have a green space to retreat to – and if they didn’t, looking at others’ was (hopefully) the next best thing!
These are the outdoor oases that gave us calm and serenity in a year we spent locked inside. From rooftop pools to centuries-old acreages, suburban backyards and sprawling regional paradises – we love each and every one of these pockets of private wilderness!
For an inland property situated 25 kilometres north of Sydney, this magical garden could easily be mistaken for somewhere in the tropics. Matt Leacy of Landart is the brains behind this transformation of a steep and rocky block into a luscious residential garden.
Through a mix of native and tropical plantings, a converted dam pool, and some massive excavation works to wrangle the sloping site, Matt has delivered the very definition of an oasis.
Sam Crawford has been working on her garden since 2012.
In that time, the landscape designer has created a dreamy country wonderland in Clarkefield, filled with decadent flowerings, luscious native grasses and pockets of waterside serenity. She is constantly adding to this work-in-progress – paying close attention as it grows and evolves season after season.
Celebrated landscape designer, Paul Bangay, has been in the biz for 30 years, and for 16 of them he has been tending to his own private garden just outside Daylesford.
Named Stonefields, the sprawling property is Paul’s labour of love. It is regal and robust, filled with flowers, hedges and ponds all inspired by the great country houses of the United Kingdom. A new book by Paul celebrates the seasonal landscape he has curated, and observes the botanical shifts that comes with each one. Stonefields: By The Seasons charts a mature garden in full bloom after years of patient growing.
Our own Lucy Feagins will join Paul for a stroll around Stonefields and a conversation about this meaningful project this Saturday November 14th at 10am on Instagram live!
Nestled in a leafy, tranquil pocket of the Melbourne CBD, right next to the MCG sports precinct, is the suburb of East Melbourne. It’s here, in this curiously quiet corner of a giant capital metropolis, that landscape architect Nadia Gill was engaged for her latest project.
The ‘Henry House’ garden is a lively addition to a recently renovated heritage terrace. Framed by original Victorian detailing at the front, and a gnarled old apple tree at the rear boundary line, these reinvigorated green spaces create a dialogue between the home’s old and new architecture.
If you’ve ever wondered how to create the perfect indoor-outdoor transition, this garden is your masterclass!
Not only are Sophia Kaplan and Lauren Camilleri the founders of Sydney interior nursery Leaf Supply, they are also seasoned authors – Plantopedia is their third book!
Billed as the definitive guide to houseplants, this book covers everything, from choosing the right type of plant for your space, to how to keep the things alive! With detailed care information, tips for troubleshooting pest invasion, interiors advice and profiles of different species accompanied by beautiful photography, this book has everything you need to know about creating and caring for an indoor garden.
Today, we’re featuring an excerpt from Plantopedia to give you a little taste of this thoughtful plant guru’s guide!
When designing a garden, the scope is usually limited to what the owners themselves want to see in their space. But what happens when your garden backs onto a busy coastal walk, and needs to look just as good to passers-by as it does from the residence?
Secret Gardens has made a magnificent effort to answer that question with their Gordon’s Bay project. By drawing on the colours of the surrounding headland, and inserting a diverse palette of succulents and drought-resistant natives, the expert landscape designers have transformed the vertiginous sandy stretch into a verdant, public-facing garden.
Not to mention adding a rooftop cactus garden and Mediterranean-inspired courtyard to boot!
Grand residential gardens are commonly surrounded by a high fence for residents’ privacy, but not this one!
Designed by Dangar Barin Smith, the deep front garden of this property in Mollymook, NSW, actively contributes to its streetscape, so much so, it has become an inadvertent tourist attraction!
