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Landscape & Garden Designer — Sunshine Coast

Native + edible + sensory gardens with purpose
Design • Sourcing • Installation • Maintenance
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14/09/2026

There’s something I really love about planting species that naturally belong to the place we live in. 🌿

Native plants bring so much more than beauty to a garden. They provide food and habitat for local birds, insects and other wildlife, support biodiversity, and because they’ve evolved with our local conditions, they’re often naturally well adapted to the climate and environment around them.

For me, a garden feels much more alive when it becomes part of the surrounding ecosystem rather than something separate from it.

This native garden was planted for Kristina in Kureelpa, in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. It’s still very young, but over the next few months these plants will start filling the space, flowering and bringing more and more life into the garden.

Can’t wait to see how this one grows. 🌱

10/09/2026

A little piece of the talk I gave a couple of days ago at Garden Day at Yandina Community Gardens 🌿

I’m always happy to share why native plants deserve a place in every garden — and especially in our food-growing systems.

By bringing native species back into these spaces, we create habitat and food for local wildlife, increase biodiversity and help build a healthier, more balanced ecosystem.

And a healthy ecosystem is the foundation of healthy food production.

If we want to grow good food, we also need to look after the system that makes that production possible. 🌱🐝

05/08/2026

What if a fence could become a habitat? 🦋
That's exactly what we set out to do with this 24-metre native screening garden in Ninderry.
The brief was simple but meaningful: screen a newly built fence using almost entirely native plants, with a strong focus on supporting local biodiversity and bringing wildlife back into the garden.
The design was built in three layers — a structural back layer of larger shrubs like Banksia spinulosa, Syzygium 'Bush Christmas' and Grevillea 'Moonlight' to create the screen; a flowering mid layer with species chosen to bring colour across every season; and a low front edge of strappy natives, groundcovers and grasses to tie it all together.
One of the things I loved most about this one was the approach to flowering. Rather than everything blooming at once, the palette was selected so there's always something in flower — from the winter gold of the Banksias, to the near year-round Grevilleas, to the summer purple of Melastoma affine. That continuous flowering means pollinators have a reason to visit all year, and Kylie has flowers she can actually cut and bring inside.

Almost every species in this garden is endemic to the Sunshine Coast region — plants that evolved here, belong here, and support the local food web in ways that exotic species simply can't.
This one's going to look incredible in a few years. 🌿

29/07/2026

Sometimes a sick tree needs a proper hard prune. ✂️🍊

​This orange tree was struggling with a heavy case of Sooty Mould—that black coating left behind by sap-sucking pests like aphids and scale.

​Normally, a healthy citrus only needs a light tidy-up. But when a tree gets this choked up, a gentle trim just won't cut it. We had to go hard and open it right up into a goblet shape to remove the diseased growth and let the sun and air get right into the canopy.

​The heavy prune fixes the immediate issue, but long-term health comes from the ground up: keep the grass back, throw down a good layer of mulch, and feed the soil with rich compost twice a year. 🌱

​How are your fruit trees holding up this season? Let us know in the comments! 👇

18/07/2026

Syntropic food forest installation 🌿
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Together with Tom from Sustainable Gardens Sunshine Coast , we transformed a 25-metre strip into a productive food forest filled with edible and medicinal plants for a whole family to enjoy for years to come.
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We believe everyone deserves access to fresh, healthy food. Growing even a small part of what you eat helps you reconnect with the land, the seasons, and where your food really comes from.
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Creating gardens that feed people while supporting the ecosystem is what inspires us every day 🥦🧡
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Got an unused corner of your garden? Why not turn it into a food forest? 🍅
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Thanks, Tom, for being part of this project. Looking forward to the next one.
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Beautiful gardens can feed you too. 🫒An edible garden is about more than growing food. It’s about creating a space that ...
14/03/2026

Beautiful gardens can feed you too. 🫒

An edible garden is about more than growing food. It’s about creating a space that brings beauty, flavour, seasonality and daily connection into your life.

What I love about edible gardens is that they can be both practical and deeply enjoyable. A few well-designed beds, the right mix of herbs, greens, fruiting plants and useful perennials, and suddenly the garden becomes part of everyday living in a whole new way.

It can be a place to pick fresh herbs for dinner, harvest seasonal produce, learn how plants grow, reconnect with the rhythms of the year, and enjoy the satisfaction of eating something from your own space.

And it doesn’t have to be a large or overly complex setup. Edible gardens can be designed to suit different homes, lifestyles and levels of involvement, from productive raised beds and kitchen gardens to integrated plantings that combine food, beauty and pollinator-friendly species.

For me, the best edible gardens are not only productive. They also feel inviting, abundant and alive.

They make a home more connected, more useful and more meaningful.

If you’d like to create an edible garden for your home, I’d love to help.

A garden that gives back. 🌱Native gardens offer more than beauty. They bring movement, sound, colour and life into a spa...
09/03/2026

A garden that gives back. 🌱

Native gardens offer more than beauty. They bring movement, sound, colour and life into a space in a way that feels deeply connected to place.

By using native plants, you’re not only creating a beautiful landscape — you’re also helping support pollinators, birds and local wildlife, while contributing to a healthier and more resilient environment.

What I love about native gardens is the way they can completely change how a space feels. The textures, the flowering cycles, the shifting colours, the sound of birds visiting, the presence of insects and small wildlife — all of it makes the garden feel more alive.

They can also be a practical choice. When planting is suited to the local climate and conditions, the garden often becomes more balanced, more resilient and easier to maintain over time.

For me, native gardens are about creating spaces that are not only beautiful to look at, but meaningful to live with.

A garden can be visually stunning, support biodiversity, attract wildlife and feel like it truly belongs where it is.

If you’d like to create a native garden for your home or business, I’d love to help.

The kind of garden you didn’t know you needed — until now. 🌿A sensory garden is more than something beautiful to look at...
08/03/2026

The kind of garden you didn’t know you needed — until now. 🌿

A sensory garden is more than something beautiful to look at. It’s a space designed to be experienced through colour, texture, fragrance, movement and taste.

This one was created at .botanicgardens in a highly visited area right in front of the restaurant, where people come to sit, have breakfast or enjoy lunch surrounded by plants.

In these small circular garden beds, I combined native species with aroma and culinary value, alongside other edible plants, traditional herbs and visually striking textures and colours. The idea was to create a space that feels inviting and alive — one that people can enjoy up close, while also attracting wildlife and supporting a richer garden experience.

What makes this project even more special is that part of what grows here is used directly by the restaurant in their dishes. So the garden becomes more than a feature of the space — it becomes part of the experience itself.

A sensory garden can bring together:
— beauty
— biodiversity
— edible value
— native planting
— daily enjoyment

A garden can do much more than fill a space. It can connect people to nature in a more direct, memorable and meaningful way.

If you’d like to create a sensory garden for your home, business or shared space, feel free to get in touch.

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