Down to earth

A remarkable native landscape with a rustic, earthy ambience

- Karen Booth

The designer's aim was to create a sustainable native garden - one that looked raw and rustic, was low maintenance and featured a birdand bee-attracting planting scheme. The musthave list presented to Mark Tisdell of MUD Landscape Design didn't end there, though.

"The owners wanted us to make the best use of the north-facing aspect and bush outlook, incorporate new levels based on the removal of part of the existing retaining wall, create a level turfed area where the kids could play, establish a sitting area, and find space to establish a chicken run and edible gardens. Materials were to be recycled and reused where possible," explains Mark.