Helping to create your dream garden
Where should I put my veggie garden?
What plants are poisonous to my children or pets?
How much do I need to spend?
Can I still have a beautiful garden if I know very little about plants?
How do I deal with this slope/dry spot /wet area/dark corner ____ ?
If you’re looking to create your dream outdoor space but have no idea where to start, you’ve come to the right place.
Every space has challenges and opportunities and an experienced eye can help you work through the maze of options to avoid costly pitfalls.
A garden designer can give you:
- Creative solutions to problems in your garden
- Help you visualise the potential with 3D modelling, illustrations & mood boards
- Clarity on how your garden can improve your lifestyle
- Advise on budgets & timelines
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Landscape design
With 2D concept plans, planting plans and 3D modelling & available, this gives you everything you need to visualise your new garden and put the build out to tender.
- Site assessment inc basic soil tests & conditions
- Concept Plan and moodboards
- Planting Plans inc botanical & common names & quantities
- Planting Day Assistance laying out your plants for your landscaper to plant
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Planting Plan
All the hardscaping is in place and you just need to know what plants will thrive in your garden.
Your planting scheme should not only be well suited to the unique site conditions, it also needs to embody the style you have in mind and match the amount of time you have available to maintain it.
- Site Assessment inc basic soil tests & conditions
- Planting Plan inc botanical & common names & quantities
- Plant order arrange plant order & delivery, making appropriate substitutions when out of stock.
- Planting Day Assistance laying out your plants for your landscaper to plant
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3D Renders
If you struggle to visualise how plans might look in reality, having 3D renders can really give you valuable piece of mind. This particularly makes sense when you’re planning to spend a fair bit of time and money building the garden.
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Additional Services
To help you finish the job, a range of additional services are available including:
- Lighting Plan inc lighting units
- Styling compiling wholesale accessories from furniture, lighting, fabrics, letterboxes to pots
- Landscaper liasion helping realise the design with your builders
- Plant care manual taking the guesswork out of caring for your new plants
Frequently asked questions
A basic masterplan can range from $850 - $1,850 whilst a complete garden redesign can range from $1,150 to $4,000 depending on the size and complexity of the block.
Garden designers, landscape architects, landscapers and horticulturists all work in the landscaping industry. They have different expertise so here's a quick breakdown for you:
Garden or Landscape designer: Operating like an architect-cross-stylist for external spaces, their primary focus is the layout, material & plant selection to match the clients brief.
The designer provides artistic and construction documents that Landscapers can quote and build to.
Garden designs are part-artist, part-horticulture, part-architect.
Landscape architect: Like a Garden designer except they work on bigger more structurally challenging projects, often commercial or public zones, and charge accordingly.
Landscaper: A landscaper is who will actually build your garden for you. This is usually the bulk of the cost of a garden.
Horticulturist: A horticulturist or someone who has studied horticulture, has studied the care and identification of plants. Whilst they will be able to advise on what plants can thrive in a space, they usually do not provide drawings suitable for construction.
Yes, La Muxlow Gardens can arrange all your plants for you. Ordering plants through your designer and not through a nursery or landscaper, means that where substitutions are required, the design remains intact.
Yes, irrigation plans are not required for every garden so offered on a case by case basis. In Melbourne's climate most gardens will need a minimum or daily watering during the Summer to keep it looking it's best.
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