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Landscape Horticulture By Tony Stanton
Discover The Benefits Of Landscape Horticulture For Melbourne's Eastern Suburbs.
Gardens are playing a more significant part of our life these days, with more people transforming their front garden or backyard into beautiful and practical outdoor living areas to be enjoyed all year round.
Typically and historically, front gardens are mostly about presentation, with an emphasis on how it looks rather than offering any practical purpose other than allowing access to the house, or garage for cars.
The backyard offers privacy and is where we spend the most time outdoors with the family, or entertaining with our friends.
We all like spending time outside because it’s where our senses come alive. What we see, hear, smell, taste and touch can invigorate us and positively change our mood making us happier.
The science of horticulture plays a significant role in choosing plants that work with the garden design and make time outdoors more enjoyable.
Plant selection should respond to the garden theme, site conditions and maintenance preferences for a garden in Melbourne’s north-east, east, south-east or outer east to Coldstream.
A professionally designed garden is an investment in your lifestyle, something that becomes a Living Picture for you to enjoy and immerse yourself within.
Landscape horticulture also looks at the care and maintenance of your plants. Any plant schedule, care information or presentation folder supplied with a softscape plan will be confirmed in the agreed deliverables.
The hardscape construction plans can specify how plants will be watered where irrigation is included in the agreed scope. Irrigation design and installation must be confirmed by the appropriate specialist for the project.
Garden lighting is well worth considering, allowing you to enjoy your garden after the sun goes down. Low-voltage garden lights can accent plants, features and paths so you can spend more time outside with family or friends. Electrical design and installation must be completed by appropriately qualified professionals.
Tony’s Tip: Consider Succulents
Succulents are a great addition to many gardens. Often they do not look like succulents at all and have amazing flower displays.
Their watering, drainage and frost needs vary by species and site.
Examples include Kalanchoe blossfeldiana and Sedum 'Autumn Joy'. Plant selections for Melbourne's north-east, east, south-east and outer east to Coldstream should be assessed for the actual site.
Tony’s Tip: Improve Your Soil
Healthy planting starts with understanding the soil already on site. Texture, compaction, drainage, organic matter and pH can vary considerably across Melbourne's north-east, east, south-east and outer east to Coldstream, and even within one property. Avoid assuming that imported topsoil or a standard amendment will solve every problem. Soil preparation should respond to the actual conditions, with testing or specialist advice where required.
Are you looking for a landscape designer across Melbourne's east?
The following list describes popular types of landscape horticulture that may inform Tony Stanton’s garden design work.
- Olericulture: the production of vegetables
- Pomology: also called fruticulture, the production of fruits and nuts
- Floriculture: the production of flowering and ornamental plants
- Turf management: the maintenance of turf grass for sports, leisure and amenity use
- Arboriculture: the cultivation and care of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants, primarily for landscape and amenity purposes
- Landscape horticulture: the selection, production and care of plants used in landscape design
Would You Like Your Garden Landscape Designed?
Have something in mind? Ask Tony for plans.
After completion of the agreed hardscape construction plans and softscape design plans, you will have a clearer basis for requesting construction quotations to transform your current garden into the outdoor living area you are planning.
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.
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