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Mature feature palm underplanted with bromeliads and tropical foliage

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Feature Plantings

Planting is what stops a built garden looking built. It is also the fastest way to buy maturity, if you are willing to pay for size.

Planting plans are drawn for your aspect, your soil and the style of the garden — never a standard list — and planted by the person who designed the rest of it.

Feature trees and palms sourced from all states, from small stock through to ex-ground size, in tropical, native, formal or retro styles.

Size at planting is a real decision with a real number attached. A small tree is cheap and will be excellent in eight years. An ex-ground specimen is expensive, needs machinery to place, and is excellent on the day it lands. Both are legitimate; they are just different products.

The horticulture behind the choice matters as much as the look. An Associate Applied Science of Horticulture is part of why the plant that goes in is one that will still be thriving in that aspect, that soil and that amount of room in ten years.

Feature trees and palms
Sourced from all states
Small to ex-ground size
Tropical, native, formal or retro

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Detail

How planting gets chosen

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Aspect and soil

What the position actually offers — sun hours, drainage, root room and exposure — before anything about style.

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Style

Tropical, native, formal or retro. The planting is chosen to match the house and the built elements, not to fill a bed.

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Size at planting

Small stock for patience and budget, advanced and ex-ground where the garden has to read as finished on handover.

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Sourcing

Specimens sourced from growers across all states, which is how genuinely good feature stock gets found rather than settled for.

Budget

What moves the number

No two gardens are the same job, so there is no list price. What there is, is a straight answer about what drives the number — and a concept with costings in writing before you commit to anything.

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Access and site

Size at planting is the dominant factor by a wide margin. The same species at 200mm pot and as an ex-ground specimen are not comparable numbers.

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Scale and structure

Placement machinery follows size. Once a specimen needs a crane or a machine to set it, access to the planting position becomes a cost of its own.

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Materials and finish

Soil preparation is the quiet one. Feature planting into unimproved Brisbane clay is money spent on something that will sulk; the bed preparation is part of the price of the plant surviving.

Tell Duncan the budget you are comfortable with and the concept gets designed to it. The work can be staged — plenty of gardens start as one wall, one path or one bed.

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The work

Feature Plantings — built

Rows of mondo grass planted in black mulch behind a bluestone edge — Rows of mondo and feature planting

Tropical feature planting of cordyline and heliconia beside an entry path — Tropical feature planting

Row of standard topiary trees above a clipped hedge and stone wall — Standard topiary and hedging

Layered garden bed of grasses and shrubs beside a stepped path — Layered garden bed

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Questions

Feature Plantings — answered

A mature specimen grown in the ground and lifted for transplanting, rather than grown in a pot. It gives you an established-looking garden immediately, and it needs machinery to place and careful aftercare to establish.

With the right species, the right season and the right aftercare, yes. That is exactly where the horticulture qualification earns its place — the choice of what can be moved, and when, is most of the outcome.

Both work in Brisbane and the choice is about the house and how you want the garden to feel. Native planting is often the easier long-term proposition on an exposed or acreage block.

Yes, and the concept plan is what makes that work — the bed shapes and the spacing are set for the mature garden, so later planting fits the plan instead of fighting it.

Where

Featured areas

Based in Dayboro and designing gardens across Brisbane and Moreton Bay — every one different, wherever it is.

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Got a space that isn’t working?

Dayboro, Samford, Moreton Bay and across Brisbane’s inner north — Ashgrove, Grange, Nundah and surrounds.

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