5 Urban Landscapers in Sydney To Design Your Backyard in 2024
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Landscaping your residences should be much more than installing a lawn and a few plants by the perimeter. A well-considered garden can evolve into an oasis of calm, bringing enjoyment and privacy to your family
The value and enjoyment of a house is vastly improved by sympathetic landscaping. A good landscaping service can tie the outdoor areas of the house to the indoors and enhance the value of both.
Landscaping designs can be minimal to high maintenance, depending on your desires (and budget).
A few designers who excel at creating memorable spaces in limited urban spaces include the businesses below.
1. Think Outside Gardens
Think Outside Gardens’ vision is to provide landscape architecture integrated with high quality construction for residential gardens in Sydney. Director, Mick Drower has over 20 years design experience.
Mick and his team strive to ensure that every garden is built to the highest standard whilst managing the unique challenges of each site. From the initial garden design ideas through the garden construction and into ongoing garden maintenance, their workmanship is guaranteed.
Website
Address
111 Sutherland St, Paddington NSW
Contact
imagine@thinkoutsidegardens.com.au
2. Secret Gardens
Established in 1994 by managing director, Matthew Cantwell, Secret Gardens focus on landscape architecture, landscape construction and horticultural services for the residences.
Secret Garden offers its customers a talented team including landscape architects and designers, structural landscaping specialists, carpenters, stonemasons and horticulturists.
With a diverse portfolio of garden design ideas their practice can design and implement gardens of varying scale and style. From the initial garden design ideas through the garden construction and into ongoing garden maintenance, their workmanship is guaranteed at every stage of the process and ensures accountability for years to come.
Think Outside Gardens is big enough to have years of experience yet small enough to be involved in every stage of the project.
Website
secret@secretgardens.com.au
Telephone
+612 9314 5333
Address
17 Aylesbury Street, Botany NSW, 2019
3. Garden Life
Set in St Peters, Sydney and sourcing a unique range of products to enhance your outdoor living. We also offer a complete landscape design service.
Located in St Peters and operated by brothers Richard and Michael Unsworth, Garden Life is Sydney’s most stylish garden emporium. From travels far and wide the new St Peters location carries a unique range of products, plant specimens and beautiful pots designed to enhance outdoor living.
Also offering a complete landscape design service – from concept through to construction, project management and ongoing maintenance
Website
Address
158 Princes highway St Peters Sydney, NSW, Australia 2044
Telephone
(02) 9517 3633
grow@gardenlife.com.au
4. Good Manors
Established in 1985, Good Manors creates outdoor living spaces that offer a lasting, integrated connection between people and their home, garden and pool.
Good Manors prides itself on considering the whole landscape as a home’s outdoor space provides an opportunity to expand the living environment in a way that creates a sense of belonging in the space, allowing the outside area to become not just an add-on to a residence, but a beautiful, functional, seamless transformation of it.
Good Manors works with its clients from design through to build and beyond, sharing their experience of what can work now and as you grow with your garden over the years.
Good Manors draws on its years of experience and strong network of service providers to provide its clients with award winning horticulture, project design, planning, landscape and pool construction and renovation services.
Website
Address
32 Halloran Street, Lilyfield NSW
Telephone
(02) 9818 3377
info@Goodmanors.com.au
5. Outdoor Establishments
Founded in 2011 Outdoor Establishments by its directors Matthew Hook and Trystan Graham, Outdoor Establishments offers garden design & landscape architecture, landscape & swimming pool construction, and horticultural services to high end residential market.
Inspired by the laid-back Australian way of life and seeking to create considered spaces that promote outdoor living, Outdoor Establishments works closely and collaboratively with homeowners, architects and builders to offer unique environments tailors to homeowners needs.
This concept to completion approach allows for a single point of contact for the entirety of the project, ensuring the design intent is delivered and maintained as the landscape is built and managed into the future.
Website
Address
1/65 Nicholson Street, St Leonards NSW 2065
Telephone
(02) 9966 8630
design@outdoorestablishments.com.au
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Sydney’s Cockatoo Island became the epicenter of luxury motoring as the Sydney Harbour Concours d’Elegance returned for its seventh edition from February 28 to March 2.
This year’s event showcased an extraordinary lineup of over 70 rare and prestigious vehicles from 1905 to 2025 in Australia’s most exclusive celebration of automotive craftsmanship.
Against the stunning backdrop of Sydney Harbour, attendees were treated to a world-class display of automotive excellence, from pre-war classics to modern hypercars and groundbreaking electric innovations.
A Weekend of Automotive Excellence
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