On Garden Design

Garden lighting finesses a good design; adding safety, security and ambience. But it’s so often poorly done.In this episode we share tips from the experts to enhance your night garden experience, how to use lighting responsibly and what to avoid.⁠Photos for this episode⁠⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠⁠OnGardenDesign⁠⁠☕☕☕⁠⁠ BUY US A COFFEE⁠⁠ if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱

Have you ever wondered who are the real people behind these voices? If you’ve enjoyed listening to us over the last 16 months, this episode will take you ‘behind the scenes’ chatting about our friendship, career journeys, hobbies and inspiration that have made us who we are. We also give you a sense of the future of the podcast and invite you to help us take the next step.⁠Photos for this episode⁠⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠⁠OnGardenDesign⁠⁠ ☕☕☕⁠⁠ BUY US A COFFEE⁠⁠ if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:13) Early days (03:35) Careers (05:48) Hobbies (09:18) Landscape design (14:24) Businesses (20:04) Inspiration (27:56) Podcast future

An outdoor space dedicated to reflection, relationship and connection can be deeply restorative. Perhaps you would like to create a memory garden to honour a loss or a celebration of a person, pet, event or cultural link? In this episode, we chat about what makes a memory garden meaningful and offer practical ideas to personalise your special space.⁠Photos for this episode⁠⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠⁠OnGardenDesign⁠⁠ ☕☕☕⁠⁠ BUY US A COFFEE⁠⁠ if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:00) Intro (04:38) What is it? (07:09) Location (13:28) Significant plants (18:58) Water features (20:30) Practical ideas (25:19) Key take-aways

Not all gardens are created equal. In fact, most have challenges that can feel overwhelming. This episode will tackle some of those tricky spaces, such as slope, balconies, vertical spaces, privacy and pokey corners. Listen in for practical ideas and inspiration to re-frame your thinking about how to best transform these tough areas.⁠Photos for this episode⁠⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠⁠OnGardenDesign⁠⁠ ☕☕☕⁠⁠ BUY US A COFFEE⁠⁠ if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:15) Intro (04:58) Slope (14:35) Rooftops and balconies (21:44) Light wells (27:08) Vertical (29:32) Privacy (33:54) Angles

Sense of Place is about taking cues from your broader landscape to create a garden that belongs to that place. Honouring your surrounding landforms or soils, endemic plants or cultural references may become the central idea for your garden’s design. In this episode we chat about what sense of place means and how it can be interpreted to inform your design choices. If your garden feels like it belongs to its context – bush, seaside or inner city – then it’s probably a good environmentally sustainable choice too.⁠Photos for this episode⁠⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠⁠OnGardenDesign⁠⁠ ☕☕☕⁠⁠ BUY US A COFFEE⁠⁠ if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:00) Intro (05:27) Layout (08:01) Touch (11:32) Sight (15:51) Smell (20:10) Taste (21:39) Sound

How about designing a garden based on a central idea? If you crave interactive experience, stimulation and response from your garden, try framing your design thinking around all things sensory. In this episode we chat about how choosing sensory as your central design idea guides your choice of layout, plants, materials and accessories. Whether you want to soothe or excite your senses, listen in for plenty of tips and ideas in creating a sensory garden that’s just right for you.https://www.instagram.com/ongardendesign are on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ongardendesign ☕☕☕https://www.ko-fi.com/ongardendesign if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:00) Intro (05:27) Layout (08:01) Touch (11:32) Sight (15:51) Smell (20:10) Taste (21:39) Sound

Do you mostly use your outdoor spaces at night? An entertainer, moth watcher, star gazer or sun avoider? Then why not design a space that is entirely centred on the idea of engaging your garden at night? In this episode we chat about how to make a garden particularly evocative and interesting at night. We consider how to maximise your layout, plants, lighting, materials and accessories to deliver a night garden experience that’s just right for you. And when the sun comes up, it’s still got to look good too.⁠Photos for this episode⁠⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠⁠OnGardenDesign⁠⁠ ☕☕☕⁠⁠ BUY US A COFFEE⁠⁠ if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:00) Intro (05:51) Layout (07:53) Plants (14:06) Lighting (16:49) Materials (18:32) Accessories (21:53) Daytime

If you feel like a giant in your garden or your outdoor areas feel overwhelming or insignificant, you’re probably experiencing a problem with proportion. In this episode we chat about practical ways to identify and achieve proportion. We discuss how to take cues from your garden’s broader context and the effect of scale, shapes, colour and foliage on achieving proportion. This episode is the third in a series on garden design principles aimed at helping you assess your garden and create a beautiful space that works for you.Photos for this episode⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠OnGardenDesign⁠ ☕☕☕⁠ BUY US A COFFEE⁠ if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱

Is there something overpowering or dominating in your garden? It’s probably upsetting your garden’s balance and compromising its harmony, comfort and stability. In this episode we chat about practical ways to achieve balance in your garden. We discuss how to achieve weighting without symmetry, applying mass and void and how to incorporate a pleasing composition of flow, shapes, texture and colour. This episode is the second in a series on garden design principles aimed at helping you assess your garden and create a beautiful space that works for you.Photos for this episode⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠OnGardenDesign⁠ ☕☕☕⁠ BUY US A COFFEE⁠ if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:00) Intro (06:06) Indicators (08:46) Weighting (10:07) Symmetry & asymmetry (15:58) Mass & void (21:56) Balance fails (25:43) Plants (28:21) Colour & texture

Why is it that some gardens just feel right? And others feel chaotic, disjointed and jarring? It’s probably all about unity. In this episode we chat about practical ways to achieve unity in your garden. We discuss how repetition brings coherence, how taking the lead from a style, theme or genre provides a unifying language and why sense of place is an important consideration. This podcast is the first of a series on garden design principles aimed at helping you assess your garden and create a beautiful space that works for you.Photos for this episode⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠OnGardenDesign⁠ ☕☕☕⁠ BUY US A COFFEE⁠ if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:00) Intro (03:24) Definition (10:33) Repetition (17:49) Plants (21:45) Architecture (23:39) Style

Dividing your garden into a series of smaller spaces is a landscape design method to make an outdoor area feel larger, more inviting and purposeful. In this episode we chat about how to design outdoor rooms. We’ll give you guidelines on ideal room proportions and what makes up the floors, walls and ceilings. We also consider how to create effective transitions and flow between the rooms. And can dividing a garden into rooms be done badly? Sure can! This podcast will help you assess your garden and apply these theoretical and practical tips for designing fabulous outdoor rooms in your own garden.Photos for this episode are on Instagram at OnGardenDesign. ☕☕☕ BUY US A COFFEE if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:00) Intro (02:15) Room dimensions (08:22) Law of significant enclosure (10:44) Floors (14:17) Walls (18:52) Entry & exits (21:40) Ceilings (25:46) Flow (30:59) Summary

Garden design is a dynamic discipline; constantly evolving through new design thinking, relationships, experimental horticultural practices and contemporary materials and technology. In this episode we chat with Fleur Flanery, owner of @outlandishventures whose remit is to identify and share innovative voices that influence global landscape design trends. This episode is packed with great conversation on emerging trends such as re-wilding, response to site, Australian design identity and sustainability. This is a down-to-earth chat full of inspiration and encouragement for both home gardeners and landscape design professionals. Join us at her Canberra and Sydney Land Escapism events in late February 2024 to hear from some of the world’s leading design thinkers.Photos for this episode are on Instagram at OnGardenDesign. ☕☕☕ BUY US A COFFEE if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:00) Intro (04:24) Identifying trends (08:29) Australian design identity (12:42) Planting trends (15:35) Rewilding (20:27) Mediterranean gardens (27:32) Sustainability (32:13) Landscape conferences

Japanese gardens are a timeless and increasingly popular garden style. They can be equally pleasing in large gardens as they are in small courtyards. So where do you start if you want your own Japanese-inspired garden?In this episode we chat about the symbology and essential elements that make up a Japanese-inspired garden. We discuss how to arrange the components, and which materials and accessories typify the style. We also describe the effect of the plants so you can choose suitable plants that work in your climate zone.Photos for this episode are on Instagram at OnGardenDesign ☕☕☕ BUY US A COFFEE if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:00) Intro (02:12) Style (04:43) Japanese vs. Chinese gardens (10:39) Purpose (11:41) Boulders (14:41) Water (16:19) Textures (17:47) Accessories (23:25) Plants (29:23) Summary