Garden makeovers and renovations

Garden makeovers can be the easiest way to improve your yard without starting all over. Employing the skills of qualified landscapers can add extra value to your home. Brisbane landscapers Greenscene Gardenscope can make it a place where you want to be to relax and enjoy or even entertain friends and family.

By Ascertaining correct levels, dry river beds used as a landscape feature can assist with drainage in times of heavy rain and flooding. Shade trees and feature plantings can have many great benefits as to shade the side of the house which in turn will reduce costs on cooling your home in summer. They can add extra privacy from street fronts or neighbouring houses not to forget reduce noise from surrounding properties, all not forgetting the aesthetic appeal adding value to your property and being the envy of your neighbours. Fresh new plants can give that extra splash of colour and life to your home and with a good layer of mulch or pebble can reduce weeding, watering and maintenance around your yard.

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Garden Design Brisbane

www.greenscenegardenscope.com.au create landscape transformations including horticulture, structural landscapes and irrigation.

Brisbane landscapers Greenscene Gardenscope utilize our sub tropical climate creating unique landscape garden settings. Garden paths meandering through tropical gardens, boardwalk decking passing over dry landscaped riverbeds, formal lighting to complement your garden or a contemporary design for that modern look. Greenscene gardenscope specialize in complete landscape design, concept to completion.

Site conditions and preparation are imperative in landscape garden design. Soil condition, drainage, climate, light and irrigation are essential factors that should influence actual plant selections and site preparation. Brisbane’s climate allows us to use a diverse range of plant species in our landscape design. Following is an insight into some of the species considered in our designs.

Tropical gardens with low maintenance year round colour are ideal back yard gardens for those who like to bring colour to their gardens without high maintenance. Deep reds and purples of the cordyline, multi colours of the crotons, small clumping palms for screening, the unique structures of dracenas. These are popular selections for mid story plant selections. Various understory plantings such as liriope stripey whites, xanadu, liriope evergreen giant, stralizea (bird of paradise), bromeliads are examples of understory tropical plantings.

Formal gardens commonly involve hedges or shaped plants and are therefore considered higher maintenance. Plants commonly used in Brisbane for hedging and shaping are murrayas, various species of syzygiums (lilly pilly) and acmeneas, austramyrtus blushing beauty, gardenias, buxus. Other species less commonly used now include duranta gold and alternanthera. These were often used as a two stage hedge for there colour contrast (purple & yellow)

Contemporary designs commonly incorporate a more structured or feature plants. Selections include cordyline red sensation for it strapey foliage, yuccas, agave’s and dracenas for there unique structure . Australian native grass trees, pandanus (particularly coastal) and various grasses are also common selections. Palms such as red latains, bismarkias, ponytail, dwarf dates and canary island date work well as  a bold statement and feature.

Native gardens may include various grevilleas, callistemons and  banksia,(for bird attracting & colour). Grasses such as lomandras and dianellas  are extremely tolerant of climate changes, dietes are popular in various forms for there flower. Many planting used by council and revegetation groups are now being  included in the urban landscape design. Lophostemons, eleocarpus, bunkinghamia, waterhousia, cupaniopsis, harpulia, schotia, xanthostemons are used extensively as shade trees. Native cycads like leprozamia, macrozamia give a dramatic effect to a native setting amongst xanthorea grass trees and other native shrubs.

Coastal plantings-Salt hardy planting of westringia, myoporum, coconut palms, pandanus, and new varieties of lomandra and dietes show tolerance  in coastal areas on the sunshine coast and gold coast where they are exposed to the prevailing winds and adverse conditions.

Greenscene Gardenscope specialize in all aspects of landscape design and construction. Our landscape service includes Surface and sub surface landscape preparation, garden design, retaining walls, paving, drainage, garden lighting, timber screens, decking and more. A full profile of our works, services and licenses is available at www.greenscenegardenscope.com.au

Greenscene Gardenscope services Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast.