What we do
Designed planting around the structures we build — borders against retaining walls, climbers training across pergolas and fencing, structural specimens marking transitions, ornamentals in raised beds. We work with a limited palette and make it count, rather than maximising species diversity for its own sake.
How we approach it
Plant selection follows the build, not the other way around. Soil is amended (or substituted) for what's going in, not just left as on-site fill. Specimens are selected for permanence — we'd rather plant fewer good plants than many disposable ones. Mulched in for moisture retention as the last act before handover.
Fewer plants, better chosen, planted properly.
Materials
Soft-stem perennials and grasses for movement and seasonal interest — ornamental grasses (Stipa, Calamagrostis, Hakonechloa), structural perennials (Salvia, Geranium, Echinacea, Verbena bonariensis). Evergreen anchors for winter mass — box, Sarcococca, Pittosporum. Climbers where vertical surfaces want them — wisteria, jasmine, climbing hydrangea. Multi-stem trees for vertical accent where the scale supports them.
In practice
Most of our recent planting is in the soil-fill stage — we'll add documented planting work to the studio archive as it matures over the coming seasons.
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