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It all starts with a client’s wish for a better backyard or front garden. How many times have you said, “Wouldn’t it be great if we had … in our own backyard?” Perhaps now you are ready to turn that dream into a practical design direction for your home in Melbourne’s north-east, east, south-east or outer east to Coldstream.
Residential landscape design focuses on the integrated planning of a house with the garden design, landscape elements and plants. Practical, aesthetic, horticultural and environmental considerations are taken into account when producing hardscape and softscape plans included in the agreed scope. Bringing the overall garden design to life is a collaboration with contractors, especially landscapers.
Other specialists such as outdoor kitchen cabinet makers, pool or tennis court builders, painters, electricians and carpenters may also become part of turning the plan into a Living Picture.
Just like when building a new home, it all starts with a plan, or two!
Before Landscaping Work
Landscape design combines artistic composition with horticultural knowledge and expertise.
Living Pictures By Tony Stanton’s garden design process places an emphasis on detailed site analysis, from the first conceptual stage through to measuring for scaled working plans. Any additional project support is confirmed separately for each project.
The basic principles or elements of good landscape design include mass, form, line, texture and colour. In the landscape, they’re used to transform space and create a unique experience. While both colour and texture add interest to a design, it’s mass, form and line that are critical to organising the space and providing structure, regardless of whether it’s a formal or informal look you’re wanting to achieve.
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Each and every one of the garden makeovers homeowners request is unique, so each project is tailored to each client’s needs and preferences to produce a Living Picture that forever changes as plants grow and flowers bloom. With the change in seasons, there’s the opportunity for new sights and smells to enjoy.
Your lifestyle and family situation is important and taken into account when considering the final layout. Which plants and elements are to be retained, modified, or replaced is also considered.
Design factors, including artistic composition when looking upon a garden as well as observing it from within, require training and experience.
Spatial development and definition using lines, a sense of scale, balance and symmetry, along with an understanding of plant palettes and artistic focal points, are all taken into account when designing a garden that is beautiful, well-functioning and able to thrive over time.
With Living Pictures By Tony Stanton as your landscape designer, the completed plans give you and separately appointed contractors a shared reference for the intended layout, materials and planting.
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Environmental consequences often have to be considered when changing the landscape of outdoor areas, especially where there are competing land uses. For example, where will water flow once the existing natural slope has been altered with retaining walls and paving?
A scaled hardscape design plan can show the intended layout, levels, drainage and stormwater requirements where included in the agreed scope. Specialist advice, engineering or approvals may also be required.
Gardeners can have useful plant-care knowledge, but plant placement also needs to account for site conditions, mature size and the overall design.
The design considers soil pH, wind and rain conditions, plant growth and proximity to other plants and structures.
Garden design software can help communicate an idea, while the layout still needs to resolve levels, planting and material relationships for the site.
Having hardscape construction and softscape design plans prepared before landscaping begins can help identify site preparation, drainage and retaining-wall considerations before construction decisions become expensive to change.
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After completion of the agreed hardscape construction plans and softscape design plans, you will have a clearer basis for requesting construction advice and quotations from the appropriate contractors.
Whether you would like a formal or informal design, whether you have a small or large front garden to renovate, a courtyard garden to update or a large backyard to transform, Tony can develop garden design solutions to match your lifestyle and site in Melbourne’s north-east, east, south-east or outer east to Coldstream.
People Also Ask
1. What's The Difference Between Formal And Informal Garden Design?
A formal garden is based on strict geometric shapes, whether circles, rectangles or squares and is rigid, clean and uncluttered. Many modern gardens are structured with formal shapes and the plants chosen to match, or are pruned in the case of hedges to make strong geometric shapes.
An informal garden is looser, not following rigid geometric shapes but rather follows curves with arrangements of features or elements, spaces and plants allowed to grow into their natural shape. Examples of this are found with many native garden designs. Water ponds made from rocks would fit here as opposed to a rectangular base with a fountain.
Note: wild garden designs are even looser in their structure, often planted out in the Adelaide Hills to provide colour and interest amongst the Gum trees. This garden style relies also on more natural elements including rocks and fallen trees to separate areas or make visual statements. Rambling paths of mulch or pebbles, bordered with logs or sleepers are common, like you find constructed throughout the many National Parks across South Australia.
2. What Is The Difference Between Soft And Hard Landscaping?
Hard landscaping consists of the hard things you will have in your garden, like bricks, concrete, stone, gravel etc. As soft landscaping is the soft or living element of your garden, flowers, shrubs, grass, trees, soil, and anything growing in general.
3. What Do Landscape Design Plans Cost?
Landscape design fees depend on the size and complexity of the site, the agreed scope and the plans or documentation required.
After an initial conversation and, where appropriate, a concept design session, Tony can explain the recommended next stage and confirm the current fee and inclusions before further work proceeds.
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