Back garden at dusk with sandstone stepping-stone path, uplit trees and layered planting

Charlwood Court

A rambling garden for a mid-century home in the Dandenong foothills — sandstone paths wind through layered native and exotic planting, lit for evening walks.

Project info —

Location
Donvale, Melbourne
Services
Schematic design, construction documentation, contract administration
Type
Residential landscape
Details
Sandstone crazy paving with thyme joints, curved granitic sand path threading the beds, layered native and exotic borders, white-trunked birches, timber-battened screen walls, ivy-greened side passage, garden uplighting
Sandstone path between garden beds of grasses, salvias and silver foliage
Sandstone path through grasses, salvia and silver foliage
Garden path at night beneath white-trunked birches and purple flowering shrubs
The lit path beneath birches
Granitic sand path curving between planted beds
Granitic sand threading between the beds
Timber-battened studio wall behind massed grasses and shrubs
The studio wall disappearing into the planting
Brick side path with climbing greenery on a dark brick wall
The brick side path, greened