Planting Plan, Tarragindi, Brisbane

Tanya and I recently designed three new native gardens together. The Brisbane gardens feature native species grown by a local community nursery and these species occur naturally within the locality. The new plantings will support native insect and animals as it will provide food, water and shelter. Additional features can be added over time including D.I.Y birdbaths, water bowls and bee hotels.

The planting plan we created below shows the position of each new plant with its name and code for ease of reference.

Tanya's illustration communicates some of the key species chosen.

Garden prepared with new mulch                     Planting native tubes                                          Planting completed

WILDLIFE GARDEN 

We were engaged to create a Planting Plan for a new Wildlife Garden for a client who wanted to contribute to protecting local native plants and animals by "Habitat Gardening". They wanted to garden in an ecologically diverse space, safe for local wildlife to live in and breed. The hard landscape construction elements were to be built by a licensed landscape contractor so the necessary documentation to allow that was provided. The client wanted to carry out the planting themselves so we created a planting plan to guide and support them.

The planting plan we have completed here illustrates the location and extent of where individual species are to be planted. A plant schedule is included detailing the number, species and container size. Photos of plants represent the species specified in this design.

Other documentation created as part of the complete drawing package illustrated detailed levels, drainage design, erosion control, soil preparation and maintenance. The planting plan will attract and become a new home for a variety of native wildlife, dealing with existing erosion issues by regrading and binding the soil, improving drainage infiltration and overland flow movement, slow water for plant uptake, polish water runoff to local waterways, providing a soul stimulating place of poetic beauty, abundance and quiet repose for the clients, providing close encounters with nature.

VERGE GARDEN

We have completed designing a beautiful garden in Brisbane where wildlife and people can connect and flourish together. We are borrowing land right in the heart of the city: The Verge ! Verges are small strips of land, between the roads and boundaries normally covered in lawns but they can potentially be much more. They are like the veins of our cities, moving us from place to place, potentially shaded by trees and surrounding us with native plants providing food ,water, shelter and sites to breed for our wildlife.

Verge Garden Concept Sketch   

Note# This garden has recently been completed  and we will post photos soon. The birds are loving there new bird bath  !!                                                                                                                                                                                            

URBAN FOREST                                                                                                                                                                                                              The urban forest design includes creating new areas of vegetation and augmenting existing areas with locally occurring

species of native groundcover, grasses, shrubs, vines and trees including Eucalyptus in Brisbane and South East

Queensland. The threatened Eucalyptus curtisii, known as the Brisbane Plunket Mallee, that naturally occur in Brisbane

will feature. These areas of natural beauty will provide important places and opportunities for people to connect with

and conserve nature, habitat for our native animals and insects and improve the livability of Brisbane through improving

air quality and reducing the heat island effect occurring now as a result of densification. The projects can be of any scale

from a container on a balcony or in a courtyard, a private garden of any size, bushland reserves or a forest in need of

recovery, creek corridors riparian, an existing commercial or industrial garden, within a public park or green space and

even a street verge or footpath !