Lake Hawea • 2002

Magestic views up Lake Hawea, an exisiting garden and a brand new architecturally designed house on a steep slope provided the perfect pallette for our creative expertise.
Special care was made to protect the views while making intimate sheltered private areas within the garden, created by a series of sculptured berms. Mass plantings of tussocks and stone rubble mulch create easy care slopes. Tussocks now cover the mulch, maintenance is minimal and the outlook blends into the bounding reserve giving the feeling that the garden continues down to the lake.
A circular stone paving feature enclosed by Tussocks and Pittosporums creates the perfect spot for a possible future spa to soak up the wonderful views. In the meantime, it works just as well as a focal point from the courtyard or a seating area.
A large rock is central to the front garden and provides a wonderful spot to rest a glass of wine.
Curving stone steps wind around the base of an established Amelanchier tree, one of the many relics of the old garden, and blue agapanthus provide a splash of bright colour, striking with the changing seasonal colour of the tree.
Natives have been manipulated in a formal way with an orange stemed Coprosma hedge and softened at the base with red toned tussocks drawing the rusty tones from the shist walls of the house.