La Muxlow Gardens
La Muxlow is an award-winning landscape designer working on Wurundjeri country, in Melbourne’s north-eastern suburbs. She is a self-confessed plant nerd and passionate about thoughtfully balancing the character of the land, the identity of the architecture, and the lifestyles of people who live there.
Whether designing a contemporary urban garden or informal country acearage, La’s gardens have a reputation as elegant and creative, with a focus on natural materials, low-maintenance but beautiful plantings, and intentional pattern and colour selection.
“I know first-hand what its like to battle the weather, poor soils and the wildlife to establish a garden. I also know the reward when after years of failure you see success. Helping my clients see that success faster is my job. And I absolutely love it.”
Having grown up surrounded by nature in sunny Cape Town South Africa, La picked up a love of gardening from an early age, falling in love with plant names, their habits and personalities. From the family decorating and property renovation business, she inherited a fascination with architecture and styling. Pouring over foorplans, debating Dulux colours and fabric combinations, was common dinner table conversation.
In 2009 La immigrated to Australia with her husband and fell in-love with Australian plants. She’s well known for her creative planting schemes paired Aussie natives with tough South African and Mediterranean plants.
One such combination won her first place at the Melbourne International flower and garden show in 2024.
La has settled on 10 beautiful acres of Aussie bush, rolling paddocks and informal country gardens surrounded by a mengerie of animals.
When she’s not designing gardens, you can find her with her children in the garden, nattering to her chickens (and her plants) or out walking our beautiful Victorian countryside.
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