An existing mature birch tree was the inspiration that Saint Remy needed to design this new garden in Ripponlea.
The landscape design studio introduced a “birch forests” – a sea of green sea, which was interrupted with color spikes, under clusters made of silver birch.
Each of the three outdoor areas, the retreat and the back yard saint by Saint Remy designed as a seamless expansion of Austin Maynard Architects's newly renovated period.
Seam Lam, main designer at Saint Remy, explains: “The customer wanted the garden to feel part of the house as part of the house, and looked at it like another room, so to speak.
'So instead of expanding the footprint of the house, the garden was extended so that it could be a large part of her daily life – be it nice views and connections to your living areas or spaces to relax, play and potter outside …
“It was a dream letter.”
The garden comprises three visually complementary rooms with enough variation to meet the microclimate and purpose of each area.
The romantic garden garden sets the tone and welcomes the house of the residents with its soft and layered green.
Quartzite plaster (“It is nice to go on; formal but full of character,” says Seam) and a stepper path leads to a shady reader under the family brand of the house before the veranda wrapped in Virginia Creeper is wrapped.
The selection of the rapidly established plants including Viola Hederacea (local violet), Bergenia Pacumbis (Ears of the Chinese elephant) and Aster Novi-Belgii 'knows' (New York Aster) creates the illusion of a garden far beyond its age (only 10 months at the time of photography).
'This tiny forest had to feel that it had always been there. It needed depth and layers, and we also had to lower good views frames and bad screen, ”says Seam.
“In short, it requires great effort that a garden feels effortlessly.”
The second garden is the private retreat of the owner Fatsia Japonica (Japanese aralia), Acer Palmatum 'Seiryu' (Laceleaf Japanese maple) and Cosmos atrosanguineus (Chocolate cosmos).
“If this garden could say a word, it would be” relaxing, “says Seam.
The sun-drenched garden is the star of the show and offers the owners quiet rooms to talk and relax at the dining table, as well as all practical amenities that you want in a hard-working garden (water tank, pot dandruff and compost chains around the freesting studio of the property).
“You would like to be there on a nice day,” says Seam.
Red brick paving (selected to meet the expansion of the house) gives way to an enchanting arrangement of multi -year grass and flowering bushes that are interspersed with more birch trees.
“We are very proud to achieve this great idea of a birch forests,” says Seam. “We planted 22 trees in the garden and 18 of them are birch trees.”
These trees separate the dining area from the productive kitchen garden to the east side of the backyard and in the weapon area in the west, both with fine gravel on the opposite pages of a small central lawn.
Seam describes the garden a “horrific over -axis”, with plants going “ballistic” after its competition in March 2024.
Saint Remy keeps maintaining the garden, where they increasingly harmonize the plants with the house and the owners pull outside at every opportunity.
Seam says: “To express it differently, if this house and this garden were humans, they would be the best friends who fall in love with love and live happily. The end. '