St Kilda Garden

Completed
Private Client
2015
St Kilda
Private Gardens

This garden in St Kilda was the result of a unique and distinctive brief from the Client in addition to the Client’s own design input and passion for purchasing specimen plants online. The brief involved creating a garden with a sense of lush sub-tropical plantings from Sydney’s Palm Beach area (where they had owned a holiday home for a time) whilst also having a distinctly St Kilda character.

Another simple and key design idea was to shift the front entrance gate to a higher elevation which transformed the entrance approach to the house and allowed the balance of the garden to be raised to create a flat usable lawn space. Retention of an unloved Jacaranda Tree with new mature plantings of Canary Island Palm and Foxtail Palms with under-storey plantings of frangipani and hydrangea contribute to a sub-tropical lush feeling whilst also screening overlooking views from nearby tall apartments.