Incorporating Art into Your Garden

The addition of interesting art into your garden or outdoor space can really transform the overall style of the space.

Weatherproof artwork or pieces such as sculptures or murals can work to add the final touch you need to modernize or brighten up your backyard. Art can be used in many different and unique ways, creating a wow factor for anyone who views it, shifting the focus of the space or to better align the space with that of your home.

The introduction of artwork can add insight into your personality and imagination. The choices you make or even self-made art can act as a representation of your own individual taste and style, making it just what you need to add that extra level of personalisation to set your garden apart from everyone else!

Finding the right piece of artwork can be a difficult, as art is very subjective. We recommend choosing something you like and that aligns with the overall style of your home. When purchasing sculptures or paintings, it is important to remember to consider all options before making your final decision.

When purchasing artwork for your garden, things to look out for include:

• Colour tone and overall theme of item – ensure it suits your home and outdoor area

• Size – you don’t want to pick something so large it overwhelms the space, nor so small it is not seen at all

• Price – find something suitable for your budget, some art can be very expensive!

• Weather-proofing – is the piece intended for outdoor use, such that it won’t be easily damaged or become discoloured?

• Location – think long and hard about where exactly you will put the piece, how this draws focus and it position in relation to the other elements of your garden

Adding interest in your garden can also come in other forms, such as the use of lighting, water features, creative tiling and paths or topiary and planting. Introducing art adds interest, a level of individuality and a personalised feel in your garden – so whatever you do, own it! Be proud of what you have created.

The key to incorporating art into your garden is to always maintain an open and creative mindset – this way you will be sure to have a beautiful and unique garden!

Need advice on how to create more interest in your outdoor space? Call the experts at Valley Garden Landscapes on 02 9548 6024.

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All You Need to Know About Paving (and Other Surfacing Options)

When you look out your back or front door, what do you see? A space that needs something, but you just don’t know what? Or do you see an area that flows perfectly in terms of look and usability for your home? It’d be nice to be able to answer that question with the latter response. Have you considered how paving might work in that not-so-perfect outdoor area at your home?

Taking into consideration your family needs and budget, some fresh surfacing can completely transform an outdoor area.

Five Benefits of Paving

• Stone paving is durable, unlike wood decks which require re-staining or re-building, paving is built to last.
• While concrete slabs can crack due to contraction or expansion, paving is made up of a number of individual pieces, resulting in less surface cracks
• Pavers don’t get too hot to walk on in summer, unlike concrete, and won’t radiate heat onto surrounding buildings
• Small areas can be lifted and replaced
• Most pavers can easily be lifted, re-located and re-used, perhaps in a different pattern in the future

Types of surfacing options – which to choose?

So you’re thinking that paving could make a big difference, but where to start? When choosing the best surfacing option for your outdoor area – consider colour, size, shape and texture. The choice of materials is almost endless – from concrete and clay pavers to soft textured limestone and also hard granite or bluestone pavers.

Selecting a colour to either complement or contrast the environment should take into account the house, fencing and surrounding garden. In choosing a size and shape, you should also consider the style of your home and remember that larger pavers can make a small space look bigger.

Choosing pavers that are known as ‘crazy pattern paving’ is a great alternative to regular symmetrical pavers. It’s timeless, unique and can suit any home. It’s done in a kind of mosaic style of stone, with varying shapes and sizes.

So there’s absolutely no excuse for having boring old concrete on your driveway, paths or patios. The versatility of paving is a real bonus for anyone looking for a low maintenance, high impact improvement to their outdoor area. But keep it simple by selecting materials and colours that work well with other materials already used in your garden or exterior of your home.

A landscape designer can also be a wonderful help with these decisions! Call Valley Garden Landscapes on 02 9548 6024 for more information and advice.

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How to Inject some Modern Design Elements into Your Backyard

One thing we absolutely LOVE about landscape design is that there is no limit to what is possible. Sometimes we feel like we are in the business of making dreams a reality! So let’s take a little garden stroll to look at some design elements that can modernise your backyard.

There is often space that gets neglected in a garden, even in small gardens, and clever design is one way to change that. The use of different textures and materials adds interest and can make your garden an extension of your indoor living area, particularly with doors that open right up. The image below shows a clever use of grass as “carpet”, as well as a combination of decking and pavers to create entertaining areas.

Adding ornaments, or a special sculpture can help add a little pizzazz and help keep a simple space from looking boring. Such a focal point also serves to slow the eye down, so it doesn’t take in the whole garden too quickly.

Contemporary art enhances and enlivens any space, and you’ll notice that a quality piece of art can totally change the mood and atmosphere of a garden. You can see below how the curved shape of this moon gate fits harmoniously in landscapes of all kinds and makes entering the garden a memorable event.

Sculptures or artwork can also bring special meaning to your garden. We find that some of our clients enjoy using sculptures that they’ve brought back from a favourite holiday destination to be incorporated in their garden design, adding a personal touch.

The key to all stunning gardens in modern landscape design is great planting that is chosen, arranged and settled well. One way of doing this is by keeping palettes minimal, which provides an overall restrained and architectural look, as shown in the below image.

Your choice of plants, colours, artwork, and water feature styles really does stretch as far as your

imagination can take it. If you’re not worn out by our little garden stroll, perhaps you’d like to take a look at some of our recent projects for some further inspiration on how you could modernise your own space using landscape design. Or you could just take a moment to enjoy this outdoor shower.

For more inspirational makeover ideas for your outdoor space, call the team at Valley Garden Landscapes on 02 9548 6024. We’re happy to help!

Using Landscape Design to Help SELL Your Home

When selling your home, you want a competitive edge to secure the best price possible. Boost your property value with clever landscape design! Here’s how:

Make your home ‘the’ house of the street

The first impression potential buyers will have of your property is from the outside – the garden. A well designed garden that complements your home and takes pride of place in the street scape will be sure to have an immediate impact. There are a number of qualities that can raise a property’s value:

• Level of care taken and garden maintenance at the property
• An eye for detail and design in crafting the garden
• Money and time have been invested to beautify the property
• It’s a desirable place someone could proudly call home!

A garden speaks volumes about your lifestyle

When home buyers are inspecting, they are picturing themselves and what their lifestyle will be (or what investors will market to potential tenants), and this is your opportunity to excite!

Landscape design can create both open space and shelter from the elements – great for entertainers – as well as quiet nooks for relaxation, beautiful large or varied plants for an avid gardener to care for, or a low maintenance, yet luxurious backyard for the time-poor professional. To appeal to lovers of cooking, an outdoor kitchen or veggie patch could be ideal!

Highlight your property’s best points

Landscape design can really help to capture the imagination of a potential buyer, by incorporating a number of design elements into a garden, perhaps framing and highlighting a view, or capturing and making the most of afternoon sunlight with clever, considered garden design.

Something unsightly in your backyard? Maybe the neighbour’s house is an eyesore, or there are utility metres you want hidden. Perhaps your home is near a busy road and you’re tired of the noise. Landscapers can soften the impact of these or obscure them from visibility with smart landscaping and clever planting solutions. Turn these perceived blights into opportunities to innovate!

 

Do it for YOU!

Most importantly – consider your needs in making any upgrade!

Investing to capitalise upon your property’s great appearance is a good idea, but isn’t it smarter to make that investment earlier so you can really enjoy your outdoor space in the meantime? You’ll be prepared with a considered and established garden should you decide to go to market in future!

Give us a call on 02 9548 6024 to discuss what we can do to upgrade, modernise and beautify your outdoor space, be it to sell or for you and your family to enjoy!

Sustainable Landscaping in Sydney’s Suburbs

Sustainable landscape design provides an exciting opportunity to maximise the positive benefits of gardening for our environment, health and even to beautify and increase your enjoyment of your outdoor space.

Sustainable garden design exists to ensure that we live in a way that can be maintained into the future, without diminishing finite natural resources and whilst avoiding harm to our local environment. A landscape designer can help you plan and develop a more sustainable garden, taking into account the following important considerations:

Reducing Reliance on Water Catchments

As we know, Australia is a naturally dry continent, therefore it’s important to ensure we don’t place undue stress our limited water supply. Sustainable landscaping should employ water-wise planting choices to minimise watering requirements, as well as considering ground coverage to avoid evaporation in the sun and heat. A quality landscape designer will also offer advice on efficient water storage and sustainable watering solutions.

This newly landscaped garden incorporated drought-hardy plants that don’t require regular watering. The garden beds have been generously mulched and the plant varieties chosen cover the surface area to manage and reduce evaporation of water from the surface of the soil.

Sharing your Garden with Insects, Birds and other Animals

Sydney’s growing suburbs mean that the habitable space for our native animals is shrinking. With the help of landscape designers, you can create a garden that includes strategic planting choices that are native to your local area, helping your home to become a contributing part of the natural landscape where local birds, insects and mammals are attracted to find food and shelter.

Enjoying Fresh Food Grown in your Backyard

Growing fruit and vegetables in your garden provides more than just the satisfaction of making delicious food. It gives your garden a homely, earthy feel and is a healthy way to improve your diet, crucially reducing the food miles of your meal. This means less greenhouse emissions are produced in the transport of your food from producer to table – what can be closer than your backyard?

Get the Look in a Sustainable Way

Beautifully landscaped spaces can be created using sustainable materials – recycled, up-cycled, recyclable and even biodegradable pieces can be utilised very creatively. A seemingly unusable area can become a feature by re-using offcuts from decking, to create a modern and enticing look and feel.

Our team are full of great ideas on how to make your garden more sustainable. If you’ve been inspired to make positive changes in your garden, give us a call on 02 9548 6024 for more advice.

Lighten Up - 6 Inspiring Ways to Use Light in Your Garden This Winter - Garden design Sydney

Gardens are places to enjoy for relaxation, escapism and entertainment. What better after a day at work in hectic Sydney than to retreat into your own private paradise?
With winter setting in, the outdoors is becoming a less attractive option with cooler weather and the sun disappearing earlier.

Claim back your backyard and make it a space for all hours and seasons with some clever landscape design choices that incorporate lighting!

Liven up outdoor living spaces

Entertainment areas can be used beyond daylight hours with the installation of effective lighting. Inject life into your outside living space with lighting that will not just make it easier to mingle, eat and drink, but also give the space a sense of warmth and vibrancy. To address the winter’s cold, why not add an outdoor heater or fireplace too?

Show the pathway

Lighting serves a number of functions beyond the aesthetic. Arguably the most important is safety. Lighting provides safe guidance of where to walk, while also highlighting the texture and colour of your chosen paving. 

Set the mood

Lighting can be used to highlight some features, while casting shadows on others, creating a dramatic effect. Colour can also be added to add some fun, while timers, sensors and faders can be utilised to make a dynamic sequences that respond to how you use the space.

Create a sense of depth and space

Change your perception of a garden with strategic lighting. Want to make a feature of some mature trees? Want to make your courtyard seem larger and more dynamic? Sydney Landscape designers have the ability to use lighting to transform a space using lighting, such as this Paddington courtyard.

Bring your features to the forefront
 
Statues and artwork have great pride of place in a garden and give it a narrative while adding sophistication. Why not enjoy these from inside the warmth of your home?

Hardscape and water feature lighting
 
Show off the hardscape elements of your backyard- retaining walls, feature walls, decking and rails, any constructed element of your backyard can be light to serve both functionality and add visual appeal. Water features can also inject interest and energy to your garden.

Tailoring a lighting solution to make the most of your garden isn’t an easy process. Call Valley Garden Landscapes on 02 9548 6024 for more information and advice.

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Sydney Landscaping Companies

The many Landscaping contractors in Sydney have vast experience of beautifying the properties in Sydney. These companies are well known throughout Sydney for developing award winning landscapes, architecture and design.

The in depth knowledge and industry experience of these Sydney landscape designers is responsible for their success. These landscaping companies focus not only on the implementation of their projects, but place a large emphasis on providing the right design to suit the client’s needs and wishes. They integrate their highly experienced and award-winning landscape architecture into the task of making over of the client’s outdoor space. They consult with the client’s in the initial stages of the project and after that they work in partnership with their client throughout the process, so that the client gets the desired level of input into the design of their outdoor area. They offer excellent and outstanding customer service and their team’s dedication to these are beyond comparison. They wholeheartedly work in tandem with their client to make their dream landscaping into a reality.  They manage and complete the project and achieve the expectations of their client. 

The work of landscape Architects in Sydney includes beautification of everything that surrounds the Sydney properties exterior. The preliminary ideas and designs for the front and backyard are then developed based on the client’s needs. They keep in mind the climate of Sydney, the kind of activities that will take place, and the types of plants that would be used. They also design any building structures if requires in the outer space. They also keep in mind any drainage modifications which may be required at the yard. Then the drawings, detailed construction documents and planting plans are prepared together with Three-dimensional renderings and illustrative plans.The landscapers guide the client through every stage of the landscaping project with clear vision and transparency.

There are many benefits of working with a landscape artist if a client wants to achieve their dream garden. There are a world of choices, ideas and solutions available with a landscape architect in Sydney when designing an outdoor area, and so working with a qualified and professional architect means that the project will be of the highest quality, using premium products. Their safe and cutting edge design will definitely meet the needs and wishes of the client’s and their family. This ensures that the backyard project is even more stunning and beautiful than the client’s expectations.

Some landscaping companies may have to hire an architectural expert but some have in-house landscape architects who are accessible and available throughout the entire landscaping process. These accredited, award-winning landscapers who have a wealth of experience in the industry can save the client’s money by saving the money that would otherwise be spent on sourcing an architect. This also makes the team fully integrated and also ensures the whole landscaping process totally seamless and smooth, and also saves the client precious time and money.