Ideas & past work
Lawn and turf ideas, Brisbane
New under-turf soil and a lush new lawn, with programmable irrigation — or synthetic, if you would rather never mow again. 10 photographs.
How Duncan designs it
No two the same.
A lawn is the quiet part of a designed garden — the open ground that lets the stone, timber and planting around it stand out. It only does that job if it stays green, drains well and keeps a clean edge.
Duncan designs a lawn as a shape, not as whatever is left over once the beds are in. The curve of an edge, the space under a shade tree, the line where turf meets a travertine terrace — those are drawn on paper with the rest of the garden. Underneath, it is new under-turf soil, the right grass for the sun and the traffic, and programmable irrigation where it is needed. Where mowing is not wanted at all, synthetic turf is laid and edged properly so it does not look like a mat.
The lawns below are all different because the blocks were. A waterfront lawn with travertine steppers, a front lawn curving around a mature tree, a strip of synthetic turf beside a deck. Each was costed to the client’s budget and laid by the person who designed it.
01Waterfront lawn and travertineA level waterfront lawn crossed by travertine stepping stones, with a glass pool fence beyond.
02New lawn and garden edgeNew turf laid to a crisp edge against a freshly planted garden bed.
03Lawn to travertine terraceNew lawn running up to a travertine terrace beneath the house.
04Lawn and feature treeA broad new lawn with a feature tree in a mulched circle.
05Lawn with a feature treeA new front lawn curving around a mature feature tree.
06Front lawn and borderA new front lawn with a curved mulched border and planting.
07Synthetic lawn and deckA strip of synthetic lawn beside a hardwood deck and planting — green without mowing.
08Synthetic lawn courtyardA synthetic lawn courtyard edged with a hardwood sleeper border.
09Lawn between garden bedsA neat run of lawn between two planted garden beds.
10Empire zoysia under a shade treeEmpire zoysia running under a spreading shade tree, out to a pair of egg chairs.
Next step
Like what you see? Make it yours.
None of these get built twice. Read how Duncan approaches turf and lawns in Brisbane, or tell him about your own space.
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