SUSTAINABILITY

In this day and age, sustainability is a big part of landscaping. Not only do you want your landscape to be a pleasure to look at, and functional, but it also needs to be sustainable in its upkeep, maintenance and long term longevity of your garden.

If a landscape can be planned to be in some ways self-supporting, low maintenance, it means greater adaptability for the plants and less work for the owners. It can also mean a cut in costs, both during construction and long term. Native plants can be a very useful tool in planning a new landscape to both create a low maintenance, drought friendly and suitable garden. Being indigenous to our conditions they have already adapted to Australia's weather patterns.

Being qualified in Natural Resource Management and having extensive knowledge of native plants we can assist in creating a fully sustainable garden or ecosystem for your landscape, big or small.

The various options we have in using this method are-

using native trees, shrubs, ground covers and grasses either endemic to the local area or suitable in it's use to your garden
installing water storage systems within your yard for both garden and lawn watering, or other household uses
using reclaimed materials such as old timbers for walls, features, seats etc rather than obtaining new manufactured products
designing your yard to suit local conditions, such as a dry creek bed in a natural drainage channel, or using tough climbers to colour your rocky embankment, and so on