Brunswick West Shaded Woodland
The brief
Our high-level brief was to transform a functional front garden facing a busy road into a 'beautiful vista' that, once established, would be relatively low maintenance.
Wishing to retain some grass and existing trees - two central Birches and a Crepe Myrtle, as well as screening foliage between the property and neighbours on both sides - our clients’ vision was a woodland planting with lots of pretty flowers, themed around a colour palette of soft pinks, white, and purples.
Our clients disliked a variegated Pittosporum acting as a unstructured fence line hedge, wanting it replaced with pretty trees to protect against street noise
To ensure we caught their vision, our clients sent through lots of garden images from Pinterest representing their idea. Then Wild Urban Green got busy…
The design
Our design proposed:
a soft colour palette to complement the house and give the garden a calm, elegant feel
foliage in many shades of green from silvery/smokey to dark
a variety of perennial flowering plants, providing year-long flowering interest
plant choices including Hellebores, Windflowers, Daphne, Hydrangeas, Bergenias, and vintage-style Bearded Irises
a softly curved garden bed, edged with corten steel
a little picnic spot on the grassy area
naturally shaped sandstone stepping stones mounted throughout the new garden to invite exploration and wandering
creeping groundcovers planted around the stepping stones
Shaded woodland
