This stunning 10-year-old garden beautifully blends Australian native plants with a formal garden aesthetic, creating a harmonious connection to its bushland surrounds. If you’re looking for garden design ideas or inspiration for gardening in Australia, this space offers a perfect mix of formal elements, like clipped hedges, a curved garden arbour and structured garden beds, with naturalistic native plantings that reflect the surrounding landscape.
In today’s tour, we’ll explore a calm, established backyard in Warrandyte, featuring everything from striking Gymea lilies and a beautiful curved arbour to a fire pit area and an entertainer’s lawn. The garden’s thoughtful design incorporates a crushed rock path that links the front cottage garden with the native-filled backyard, showcasing hardy Australian natives like correas, acacias, and lomandras. Plus, you’ll see how exotics like crab apples and Crepe Myrtles add seasonal colour and interest in more formal garden beds.
This peaceful retreat, built by Semken Landscaping and Vivid Design, is a masterclass in blending formal structure with Australian native plants.
Let me know in the comments what part of this garden caught your eye! Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more garden tours and ideas.
GARDEN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION:
🌱 Garden Design & Construction – https://www.semken.com.au/ & https://www.vividdesign.com.au/
🌱 Rocks for paths and walls from – https://www.transrock.com.au/
FILMED ON: Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country in Warrandyte, VIC, Australia
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🌱 Cinematography: Ger Hynes https://www.hynesitephotography.com
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9 Comments
I loved this garden! Beautiful & looked achievable to maintain.
(and the bloopers at the end, classic 😂)
7:41 they look a lot like sweet violets (Viola odorata), I could be wrong though. Anyway, I love your native garden tours so much!
I like how the overhead shot (8:00) shows the gardens of the nearby houses creating habitat for small birds, reptiles and mammals collectively. There are large trees, shrubby outcrops and areas of dense understorey and rocks for the wildlife to move through, even though the houses take up so much of the land they are on. Formal gardens can, of course, be lovely…. but I think part of responsible stewardship is to create balance on the land with areas of native planting and wildlife habitat to ensure those who were there first still have a place to live and flourish. I think these owners achieved that.
Another lovely garden explore. Thankyou Chole
Nice to see the espaliered lemon trees, looking at them I think I can prune mine a bit harder.
Beautiful garden.
Love it all !
Adored this garden wander … so many takeaways to think about 💚
Love the bloopers 😂
But the crabapples are now on my list of must haves … thank you