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Landscaping in South Yarra.

Gardenscape designs and builds landscaping across South Yarra, from concept to completion. One team plans, sequences and delivers the whole project, bringing the discipline of senior project managers to a suburb where roughly four dwellings in five are a flat or an apartment and the outdoor room is a courtyard, a roof terrace or a balcony rather than a back lawn.

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What’s Included

Everything Under One Build.

A South Yarra courtyard is never one trade.

Gardenscape scopes and delivers all of it as one coordinated South Yarra project:

Retaining walls
Paving and concreting
Garden beds and softscapes
Excavation and site preparation
Drainage and levelling
Turf, natural or artificial, to finish

Our Landscaping Process

Our Process

Run Like a Major Project.

Site Assessment

We walk the courtyard or terrace with you, work out how you actually want to entertain in it, and check what sits under the paving and which trees are staying.

Scope and Quote

A written scope and a straight quote, including any council check your side of Punt Road calls for. You know exactly what is being built and why.

The Build

Sequenced so trades never trip over each other, and staged around narrow South Yarra access and whatever lift or stair window the building allows. Honest timelines throughout.

Handover

An outdoor room ready to be used, and the brothers put their name behind it. Built Right. Built to Last.

Landscaping in South Yarra

Built for the Way South Yarra Entertains.

Planned Around Your Block.

South Yarra was a suburb of mansions before it was a suburb of flats. Through the 1920s and 1930s the big Victorian era garden estates were carved up and apartment blocks went in, which is why the courtyard behind a Darling Street or Lawson Grove building is so often a surviving fragment of a much larger nineteenth century garden, mature trees and all. Those trees usually decide the design. Punt Road also splits South Yarra between two councils and the rules are not identical on each side: east of it the City of Stonnington calls a tree significant at 140cm of trunk circumference measured 1.4 metres above the base, and work on one needs a Tree Works Permit. We confirm which side you are on before we draw anything. After that it is about the outdoor room itself, whether that is a paved entertaining terrace off a Domain Road apartment, a courtyard borrowing the canopy of Fawkner Park, or a garden on one of the old Como estate streets down near Williams Road. We also build across Toorak and Windsor, and we lay turf in South Yarra as part of the same build.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything You Need to Know

Can you build an entertaining space on a South Yarra apartment terrace?

Yes, and most weeks that is exactly what we are doing. Around four in five South Yarra dwellings are flats or apartments, so the outdoor room here is usually a terrace, podium or balcony rather than a back lawn. We design to the access, the load and the waterproofing the building already has.

Which council do I deal with in South Yarra?

It depends which side of Punt Road you sit on. West of Punt Road is the City of Melbourne, east of it is the City of Stonnington. The two do not run identical tree and permit rules, so we confirm your side before design starts rather than halfway through a build.

Why are there such large trees behind small South Yarra homes?

Because the blocks are much younger than the gardens. The mansion estates were subdivided for flats through the 1920s and 1930s, and mature specimens from the original grounds simply stayed where they were. We design around them instead of fighting them.

How long does a landscaping project take in South Yarra?

It depends on scope, and the timeline goes in the quote. Getting material into a courtyard off Toorak Road, or up to a Domain Road terrace, is usually the slow part, so we book the access window in advance rather than discover the problem on site.

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