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23.01.2022 Trish contacted me wanting some help with placement of a few fruit trees. Approx 25 hours of work later, designing on the fly she has a new garden. Careful folks, I can be very convincing.

23.01.2022 A full day in the garden and what do I feel like when I get home........more gardening, on a slightly smaller scale. Commissioned this time for a succulent terrarium. Crassula tetragona, sedeveria 'Starburst' and some Sempervivum pups make up this dry landscape terrarium, complete with 5 varieties of stone/pebbles & charcoal base.

22.01.2022 Check out this fantastic new invention. I'm guessing there are some pretty air tight lids on those jars when not taking photographs otherwise I'd imagine those outlets would be covered in bees. Will be eagerly awaiting this inventions release date.

22.01.2022 We're still open for business @ Next Generation Gardens, it's just a hard slog in this heat, and not the best time for installing gardens. Whilst we wait for things to cool down a bit I thought I'd spend some of my creative vision utilising some echeverias my Mother pulled out of her garden when dividing a clump. These Moss/Succulent balls can be put together on request and will long outlast a floral table centre. Get in touch if you need some plant based styling done, we're full of fresh ideas at reasonable prices!.

20.01.2022 Have succulents growing out of control in your garden? Large patches of Echeverias, Sempervivums or advanced Crassulas that you no longer desire? I've bought a property which I'm hoping to plant out. I'm on the prowl and willing to offer any of my business services on a barter system for unwanted plants. Send me photos or get in touch if you're interested.

20.01.2022 Determined not to be the equivalent of the professional chef who eats 2 minute noodles @ home, I've found a couple of windows to work on my own yard. A work in progress, my landlord will no doubt be pleased, considering it was weeds and humble concrete pavers when I moved in.

18.01.2022 NGG's closed for business until Monday 27th. Fingers crossed for good weather down in Wilsons Prom!

17.01.2022 I know you've all been wondering when you're going to hear from our Permaculture specialist Adam Woodman. Well, he's currently in Peru. He claims to be project managing an incredible Permaculture project up in the hills, however I can't help but think he was kicking back in a deck chair under the sun sipping on a cocktail whilst putting this blog post together. http://www.nextgengardens.com.au//an-introduction-to-food-

17.01.2022 Christmas present to myself, finished off the paving. Flipped some of the old pavers to increase the size of my garden beds. January is going to be quiet with some time spent down the coast, then back into it full swing. Exciting new side business to be launched mid 2015 as well, so stay posted!

16.01.2022 Isaac and Patience were sick of exiting their front door to weeds and a confused mishmash of plantings. The soil out in this Point Cook estate is heavy clay and rubble, however the few established plants tell a story of hidden nutrients stored within. Branching out from my staple of produce and natives, I recommended we work on the existing ornamental/exotic palette, transplanting a few crowded specimens and introducing further escallonias, mexican orange blossoms, mock orang...e, orange jessamine, heliotropes, statice as well as a 'grace' smokebush, 'teddybear' magnolia and 'lipan' crepe myrtle. Introduced a couple of meters of soil activator, a drip irrigation matrix, Australian hardwood edging and some recycled mulch to top it off. The nature strip I planted out with succulent cuttings I'd gathered over the previous week. Not bad for a days work. See more

14.01.2022 Have an empty pot? Or a recent vacancy in one of your garden beds requiring a plant you'll never get bored of? Feature plants are great when they herald the beginning of Spring with an incredible 2 week long blossom display. They're also pretty good when they create a focal point in the garden every day of the month, every month of the year. Check out my new blog on feature plants exhibiting strong architectural aesthetic, for ideas on how to fill your next blank spot in the garden. http://www.nextgengardens.com.au//top-10-architectural-pla

13.01.2022 A Japanese Dry Landscape or 'Kare-sansui' I designed and part installed for Lizturner.com.au. Liz is a Melbourne based Horticulturalist. A Burnley College graduate, Liz specialises in Sustainable garden design and horticultural consultancy.

12.01.2022 What have I been up to Facebook? Well, here are a few preview shots of the garden I've been installing out in Montmorency. With a clief brief largely focused on produce, I've included some low maintenance, drought tolerant natives and succulents mass planted to highlight their fantastic colours and textures (Cotyledon orbiculata 'Silver Waves', Echeveria 'Zorro', Lomandra filiformis 'Blue Savannah' & Crassula ovata 'Gollum' to name a few), as well as a few indigenous species.... A beautiful tree aloe specimen is a key focus and combined with a number of advanced Agave 'Blue Glow' complement all the incredible rock both in the hard landscape and the house itself! Avacado, tamarillo, pears, apples, mandarin, hops, a temperate fruiting babaco and banana, wine barrels filled with vegetables, all serviced by drip irrigation. You name it, this garden has it! Yesterdays work was a piece of cake with Matt & Andrea's children giving me plenty of suggestions, helping hands and a touch of constructive criticism. Stay tuned for the progress on this one, it's an absolute gem! See more

10.01.2022 Failed plant delivery meant I scored the day off today. It gave me the chance to put together another piece of succulent art. Those succulent balls from exactly a month ago still look good as new;-) Aloe vera, aeonium atropurpureum, sedeveria starburst and a few of my treasured pineapple mini plectranthus create this textured mess. Hope you like it.

10.01.2022 My new clients graciously allowed their neighbor to dig a trench through their property and as a result, lost one of their garden beds. Winnie & Rick were fantastic in giving me creative freedom and as a result I did a mixture of produce & natives, with a few fragrant & drought tolerant exotics. Dwarf espaliered Apricots, a trixzee pear, miniature peach, globe artichokes, poa 'Kingsdale', dianella 'Blaze', Scleranthus uniflorus and Osmanthus 'Heaven Scent' were amongst the species utilised in bringing this garden bed back to life.

09.01.2022 A couple of before and after images displaying a courtyard spruce up . The brief was to enhance the current courtyard to low maintenance requirements, bolstering the credentials of this 2 bedroom unit in Coburg before sale. A simple but effective revamp. Soil conditioning, drip irrigation, link-edge aluminium edging, tuscan stone toppings and a fresh layer of mulch. Dwarf lillypillys for hedging (where a previous viburnum tinus was causing damage to the roof), dianellas, lomandras, dwarf mondo grass and a hibertia for training along the southern fence line. Nice little job and the client informs me it's coming along well.

08.01.2022 Spent another day out in lovely Montmorency. The garden's really coming along! Just waiting on a few key plants, like the dwarf self fertile 'Wurtz' avocado, Native finger lime, dwaft tahitian lime, dwarf seedless mandarin and not one, but three varieties of passionfruits. Yum! Matt and Andrea have kindly let me display one of my signs which fits in nicely. What a beautiful day to be working outside! Here's a few photos of the recent progress.

04.01.2022 Another day out in Montmorency, this time for a maintenance pre-Spring call on one of my own designs. The succulents are at the stage where we're starting to divide them to fill out the design. It's always satisfying when the number of plants in the garden start to multiply at no cost to the client. The Tree Aloe has decided to branch which gives us something to look forward to and of course we're super eager to see how the produce takes off this season. The comfrey is doing a good job of breaking up the clay subsoil with the help of some gypsum and the Limonium has been flowering non stop for a year now. Don't forget to spray your Nectarines and Peaches for leaf curl folks.

01.01.2022 I was working at Bulleen Art & Garden as a Nurseryman and Consultant when I was invited into this garden many moons ago to have a chat about its future. Walking through its Spring display yesterday, taking in the heavily laden plum, cherry, quince & mulberry trees, the chickens, seasonal produce beds, herb spirals, aquaponics system and vast array of flowering perennials, I realised just how much I owe 102 Edwin st in assisting my evolution as a garden designer. The incredibl...e variety of flowers in this garden provide a constant source of interest and delight. Yesterday we noticed a grey ladybug species I'd never seen before and a number of small bee species. Add these to the blue banded bees, common red and yellow ladybeetles, neon cuckoo bee, australian mantis, hoverflies and lacewings and you've got one serious army of beneficial insects! Working for you has been and continues to be a genuine pleasure Kim! See more

01.01.2022 I was out in Montmorency today maintaining a garden designed by my colleague Adam Woodman from Co-creative Permaculture. There was a stack of fruit tree pruning, plenty of chopping and dropping, some imported premium soil conditioner from Bulleen Art & Garden and a healthy dose of pea straw. The swales needed a bit of re-shaping but we should be all good for Spring.

01.01.2022 Whilst produce style gardens are incredible and my 'go to' if a client gives me the freedom to design as I please, I'm more than happy to dabble in other styles. When I began my Horticulture degree the only style gardens I was interested in were Japanese style gardens. They were the subject of the majority of my assignments and were influential in my travelling to Japan in 2004 and then again at the beginning of this year. Check out my blog post on Kare-sansui (Japanese Dry Landscapes) for an insight into the gardens which directed me down the design pathway all those years ago. http://www.nextgengardens.com.au/bl/japanese-dry-landscapes