Whether perched on a coastal cliff edge or situated in the country, Australia is home to an abundance of innovative, beautiful and sustainable gardens. While we may spend more time outdoors during the warmer months, Autumn’s cooler temperatures provide the perfect time to take on landscape ventures.
These ten architecturally inclined landscapes from the pages of Belle showcase the exceptional work of Australian garden designers, and boast a refined and languid sensibility.
It seems like a contradiction – a structured garden with loose planting, but Kate Sedon Landscape Design has made it work like a dream.
Formal plantings and classic proportions belie the atmosphere of softness and warmth in this vast Melbourne garden designed by Paul Bangay.
Clipped orbs of Japanese box and drifts of junipers cluster in this striking garden of strong forms designed by Richard Unsworth of Garden Life.
This sandstone side path of this oasis designed by Matt Cantwell of Secret Gardens is surrounded by Dichondra repens, Yucca elephantipes and Buxus microphylla with Miscanthus sinesis ‘Adagio’ grass.
Tall walls of Leighton Green cypress are used extensively to frame various rooms within this formal garden designed by Peter Fudge and featured in the Belle Australian Landscape Designers book.
An exquisite variety of robust, rugged plantings come together in this Mollymook garden by William Dangar of Dangar Barin Smith. “It has a fantasy feel, with the aloe trees a bit like the drawings of Dr Seuss,” he says.
Investing in fast-growing evergreens, clipped species and symmetrical planting paid off for garden designers Annie Wilkes and the owners of this lush Sydney Property.
The lawn on the harbourside of a garden designed by Joanne Green and Rory Green. This space features lilly pilly and Japanese box hedges, dwarf mondo grass and sweet alyssum, and was featured in the Belle Australian Landscape Designers book.
This sculptural garden was designed by Ian Barker of Ian Barker Design. The Crescent Birds bronze sculpture is by Bridget McCrum through Messum’s.
Under the bridge in this Jack Merlo Design garden is planted with silver vein creeper and rock lilies, and a crepe myrtle. From the Belle Australian Landscape Designers book.
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