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Garden design and softscaping, rejuvenation and renovation + maintenance

Darling Gardens working on something bigger this week in Mullumbimby.
31/07/2023

Darling Gardens working on something bigger this week in Mullumbimby.

Xanthorrhoea glauca has huge flowers!!
28/07/2023

Xanthorrhoea glauca has huge flowers!!

The native garden is taking off and first signs of a happy plant in its new home is new growth the flowers. ...
27/07/2023

The native garden is taking off and first signs of a happy plant in its new home is new growth the flowers.

These literally smell like Fruit Loops - Daphne odora
19/07/2023

These literally smell like Fruit Loops - Daphne odora

It’s time to prune the Robinia pseudoacacia!! These trees can be pruned back hard in winter. It encourages new and healt...
18/07/2023

It’s time to prune the Robinia pseudoacacia!! These trees can be pruned back hard in winter. It encourages new and healthily growth and if done correctly it will give you a neat ball-like canopy!

Feeling all the colourful tropical feels in this garden on Pittwater. 🌈🏵️🌺🌱💐🌊What was once an old Nandina hedge, has bee...
06/07/2023

Feeling all the colourful tropical feels in this garden on Pittwater. 🌈🏵️🌺🌱💐🌊

What was once an old Nandina hedge, has been transformed into something vibrant, lively and only promises to get better with time!
Swipe across to see the before shot.

Plant Issues. This first photo is of “girdled roots” and the second photo I believe is “myrtle rust”. I found both of th...
03/07/2023

Plant Issues.

This first photo is of “girdled roots” and the second photo I believe is “myrtle rust”. I found both of these in the past week.

Girdled roots start in the nursery. It’s due to a plant being in a particular size pot for too long. The roots basically have nowhere to go and are gagging to get out. The roots start wrapping around themselves in the pot. The customer then plants this without the knowledge of it and the plant eventually fails in the ground as the plant continues to strangle itself, also leaving the tree without proper stability. Check the the rootball before you buy the plant.

The second photo is of Myrtle Rust and is a fungal disease. It infects species in the Myrtaceae family. Australia has lots of species in the Myrtaceae family, this one being a Lilly Pilly (Syzygium willsonii). It is a huge problem and should be dealt with immediately once detected. Chuck the plant into a waste bin and if small enough put into a plastic bag and then into the general waste.

I get a huge amount of inspiration from our bush land. Where I can I love to recreate a natural appearance and feel in t...
25/06/2023

I get a huge amount of inspiration from our bush land. Where I can I love to recreate a natural appearance and feel in the gardens I redesign the plant schemes for. I think God was a garden designer, everything is placed so perfectly in the bush.

Adopted the care-taking of this garden in Roseville, growing around a beautiful 1900s home. The garden is timeless, but ...
22/06/2023

Adopted the care-taking of this garden in Roseville, growing around a beautiful 1900s home.
The garden is timeless, but we believe in the evolution of a space and there is always opportunity to shift plants around and plant something new.
A fusion of classic plants and their modern cultivars, plus new species that blend into their environment.
Watch this space come spring, summer and autumn, when the perennial flower beds burst will colour and vibrancy!
Ps we believe in letting the fallen leaves of the deciduous trees stay right where they are in the beds, to regulate soil temperate and break down to add more nutrients. What a brilliant natural cycle! 🌀

Another big day of plant install and general maintenance at a completely re-landscaped job in Avalon. A native-focused p...
21/06/2023

Another big day of plant install and general maintenance at a completely re-landscaped job in Avalon.
A native-focused planting scheme settled in well under the canopies of Spotted Gums and Angophoras dotted over the property.
Our job was to prepare the beds, install the design and take care of them post-planting. Alongside whatever else came up in the process!
All carried out with the touch and passion of a coupla horticulturalists. 🌱🌻🌀🌞

Todays plantings - Banksia spinulosa & Grevillea sericea. Native and indigenous to the Sydney region. I’m incredibly in...
21/06/2023

Todays plantings - Banksia spinulosa & Grevillea sericea. Native and indigenous to the Sydney region. I’m incredibly inspired by our local bushland plants. Where I can, I try to recreate the local bush in the gardens I work in. It takes getting out there and really getting to know the individual plants and doing your research. Bought from

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