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BALLERINA GARDEN

A highly detailed design brief with the request for a garden that would totally transform the property from its prior tired state into a beautifully detailed external renovation.

Every square inch of the property outside of the house walls but including them also was considered and planned for as a complete vision. Modern light tones were selected for the canvas to support the garden that would be the house. These were offset by a detail contrast of Black as a reoccurring theme throughout the property. The house and fixture colours were selected to work seamlessly in a modern uplifting theme with refined, architecturally driven material selections made for the project to work in alliance with a vibrant, textured and colourful planting aesthetic.

A large floating concrete bench provides a functional art installation nestled close to the house in an otherwise awkward void. This doubles as a casual gathering area. A Japanese Maple planted within a circular void cut-out in this structure invokes a statement about the contrasts of soft vs hard elements that make up this garden.

Raw burnished concrete provides an uncomplicated modern presentation and the allocation of a successful detail for the pool and all associated paving areas. The design works in an original kidney-shaped pool with polished concrete designed to provide a seamless pool coping extension that would allow for the purest presentation of the tight spaces that were allocated.

The front landscaping was designed with more of an emphasis on the planting and of a pretty garden element. The front needed to be stunning but also not complicated by structural landscaping components.

Ornamental grasses and a pastel flowering range were carefully planned and placed for repeat interest and a point of difference garden. Many of these plantings giving appropriate scale to the garden and property presentation as a whole. The garden is seasonal with strategic planning of flowering times and plant relationships.

 The seasonal plantings of the rear provide a response to the raw characteristics of the garden design. As seasons change, the new colours and deterioration of the seasonal vines and grasses were planned to bring a journey of constant evolution to the viewing of the space.