Landscape Designer Baulkham Hills

Landscape Design Specialists Working in Baulkham Hills

Half the skill in landscape design around Baulkham Hills is knowing what not to disturb. Established gardens, old services and battle-axe handles and shared driveways that decide how close a truck can park all sit in the way of the obvious approach.

Most landscape design enquiries we take in Baulkham Hills come from the same place: a garden that was planted before the levels and drainage were resolved. It is worth understanding why that happens here before deciding what to replace it with.

What makes landscape design in Baulkham Hills different is the combination of Wianamatta shale clay that swells in a wet winter and shrinks back hard through summer underneath and, on a great many blocks, the need to work around original hardwood paling boundaries that are now well past their service life.

Call 0492 879 796 for a free measure in Baulkham Hills and we will walk the job with you before anything is priced.

What Happens After You Call

Where the job affects a neighbour, we provide an itemised written quote you can hand over. It resolves more conversations than any amount of goodwill on its own.

We stage the work so the property stays usable. On a boundary job that means a section is never left open overnight, and on a hard landscape job it means access to the house is maintained.

• Site analysis and level survey
• Documentation for approval where required
• Concept design and layout
• Lighting and irrigation design
• Materials and finishes selection
• Staged construction planning

Choosing a Landscape Design Format

Approvals and Council Requirements

Where a job needs approval we say so at quote stage rather than after the deposit. It is one of the few parts of a Baulkham Hills project that cannot be fixed later.

Height, position and appearance are the three things most often controlled. In Baulkham Hills, The Hills Shire Council sets the local controls over the top of the state provisions, and forward of the building line is where they bite hardest.

Getting Materials Onto a Baulkham Hills Site

We work out where the truck parks, where the material lands and where the spoil goes before quoting. On long side boundaries that fall steadily toward the rear of the block, that is not a detail.

Neighbouring properties, verges and driveways get protected. Around Baulkham Hills we allow for cut-and-fill benching from the original subdivision leaving a hard step at the rear fence, because a delivery in the wrong place causes more trouble than it saves.

Materials and Specification

The parts you cannot see once the job is finished are the parts worth paying for: footings, drainage, fixings and substructure. That is as true in Baulkham Hills as anywhere.

Everything we install carries a manufacturer specification, and we install to it. Warranty claims fail on installation detail far more often than on product defect.

• Sight lines from inside the house matter more than the plan view, because that is where the garden is seen from most.
• Planting is layered by height and by season so the garden works all year rather than for six weeks.
• A garden that ignores the sun path will fail regardless of how good the planting list is.
• Lighting is designed as layers, path, feature and ambient, rather than as a row of fixtures.
• Circulation comes before decoration: where people walk determines where hard surfaces belong.

What Usually Brings People To Us

There is a pattern to landscape design jobs in Baulkham Hills, where the housing is largely 1970s and 1980s full brick homes on quarter-acre lots, many now carrying a second storey. A whole street tends to reach the same point at the same time.

• Hard surfaces in the wrong place, so the garden is walked around rather than through
• A garden that was planted before the levels and drainage were resolved
• A scheme that ignores where the sun actually falls
• Planting chosen for a nursery display rather than for the site