Project 2 Millard
This project design brief was to create a modern West Australian native garden. The garden had to compliment the residential building design by Kelleher Homes through plant types and materials. In landscapes playing with heights is a major design tool, instead of just looking in 2 dimensional. We added railway sleepers that were placed in the front garden vertically, by using railway sleepers it brought out the ‘rustic’ of outback Australia into the landscape. The sleepers were set at different heights to create a more random effect, a more ‘natural’ effect. Chosen sleepers were used to create a screen, by using espalier wire in-between two sleepers and having a creeper grow up and creating a screen.
Plants such as Olearia, Westringia, Carex, Tulabaghia, Anigozanthus, Grevillea, Cycad, Adenanthos and Kennedyia were used to create this low maintenance and drought tolerant front garden. By using sub-surface reticulation, water consumption is minimalised dramatically.
The pool area and back garden needed to be accommodating for low maintenance, and for form ‘minimalistic’. By using focal plants such as Yucca’s and Black Bamboo around the pool this created a relaxed modern ambience, which was complimented by the colours of the building and walls creating striking contrast. We used stones for mulch to minimise debris going into the pool.