Native plants support local ecosystems while preserving the unique character and heritage of Australia. With some planning and forethought, you can create a range of appealing garden styles while incorporating native plants and enhancing the hardiness of your landscape. There are plenty of reasons to incorporate native plants into your next garden project, let’s look at some ways bringing natives …
TDL’s Tips & Tricks to Maximise Your Outdoor Entertaining Space
Designing and incorporating an inviting and functional outdoor space in your new home or renovation can provide additional living and entertainment areas while creating a seamless flow between indoors and out. In this blog post, we will explore some tips and tricks to help you maximize your outdoor entertainment area, making it a pleasant and versatile space for year-round use. …
Selecting the Right Plants for Your Perth Garden
When we’re putting together a design for a garden, a key consideration is the functionality of the planting. We think about whether the planting is being used to screen something off or if it needs a low profile, whether it needs to climb or creep, and whether it is in a tight space. Our final selections for plants are dictated …
How to find the Right Sculptures, Planters, and Ornamentation for your Perth Garden
Some spaces call for focal elements like garden sculptures and planters to create visual cues that establish hierarchy within the layout. Sculptures and planters can be used to frame entryways, to draw the eye to feature gardens, and sometimes to conceal sins or introduce planting where it would otherwise not be possible. If a sculpture is what you seek then …
Our Go-To Tips for Selecting Perth’s Best Outdoor Furniture and Fittings
We are so lucky to live in Western Australia, our climate and roomy residences allow many of us to exploit the luxury of outdoor living and entertaining throughout the year. Here, bringing the indoors out is a worthwhile project that can be completely life-changing. Our garden designs and renovations usually incorporate many of the comforts and fittings required to make …
Landscaping your Heritage Perth Home
Many of Perth’s older suburbs boast beautiful heritage homes with spacious gardens. Heritage homes are known for their unique character and rich history and heritage significance is based on the historic and aesthetic values of the area. If you are fortunate enough to own one of these grand dames of the housing world, you will want to do everything you …
Landscape Design Highlights – Our Favourite Projects
TDL’s residential landscape design team devote their full attention to creating practical, beautiful, bespoke landscapes for our clients. Their customised approach to each project is abundantly clear upon viewing the visualisations and plans they produce, with projects of all scales and styles represented in their portfolio. Here is a diverse selection of some of our own favourite residential designs from …
What You Should Know About Landscaping Your New Build Home
Building a new home from the ground up can be one of the most exciting and rewarding challenges a person can take on. You may have chosen your ideal location, and started the design process with the architect or builder of your choice. Bringing together all of the pieces required to create your dream home from scratch can be daunting. …
7 Landscape Design Trends We’re Getting Behind in 2022
With the onset of cooler weather, now is the perfect time to prepare your Perth garden for a transformation. We will be looking at some of the most popular landscape design elements trending in Perth right now to turn your garden into an oasis. 1. Upright post screens and fences – a stylish alternative An upright post fence can provide a …
Design, Construction and Maintenance: One Homeowner’s Experience
This month we are revisiting some wonderful clients from a recent project, to speak with them about their experiences. It can be hard to imagine what it will be like undertaking a major renovation, but having taken their garden through design, construction and now maintenance with TDL, Hannah and Andrew are able to share their unique insights into the client’s …