Feeling peace underfoot
Walk into a place in nature where peaceful people have always walked and you will feel a sense of peace and want to stay there. Walk into a place where humans have used nature as a place to kill and … Read More
Walk into a place in nature where peaceful people have always walked and you will feel a sense of peace and want to stay there. Walk into a place where humans have used nature as a place to kill and … Read More
Without further ado.. A bath sitting under a waterfall with a creek running past amongst all the ferns. The idea is waiting for an early adopter with vision to a future we both see as living IN nature.. and so … Read More
In less than a week a 10m x 6m patch of concrete floor in Melbourne Exhibition Centre will become a park. all being well… It’s not a new concept but a very well received one wherever it occurs. We’re … Read More
I get excited by opportunities to create excuses for people to leave the house. I relate to hermits well and know the only thing that stands between me and the success I want, is my love of my treehouse home … Read More
I often wonder if people realise how much quiet analysis of them goes on when I work with them to design a garden space that will create a sense of peace within. It surprised some colleagues at a Melbourne Council recently when I … Read More
What does it mean to ‘lose’ yourself in the garden when you ‘should’ be doing other things? Let’s just take a different view on that.. one that would impact the bottom line of drug companies in the western world.. What … Read More
Forgive me… but I’m very very excited for there’s change a coming in your backyards people! Our beloved landscape industry has finally learnt that curves are good, that not all that is built is garden, that green living things really … Read More
I saw some of the magnificent courtyside near my back door today, wandering through Leongatha, Korumburra and Foster, near Wilson’s Promintory National Park in South Gippsland. It reminded me of the Lake District in England without the lakes. Rolling green … Read More
When I’m visiting a garden or site for the first time, I often find my mind wandering and drawing a picture of what the garden needs to be for the people who will live in it. As you tell … Read More