A personal, practical garden consultation at your Brisbane home

Have a garden that isn’t quite working? Not sure what to plant, where to plant it, or how to turn your ideas into a cohesive garden?

Book a Garden Consultation with me and let’s work through it together.

I’ll come to your garden, spend up to two hours with you on site, and help you develop a clear, practical direction for your space — whether you’re starting from scratch, renovating an existing garden, or simply trying to work out what to do with a particularly difficult corner.

Your garden, your goals, our conversation

Every garden is different. So rather than giving you a generic planting list, the consultation starts with understanding your garden and what you want from it.

We’ll walk through the space together and discuss things like:

What you love — and what isn’t working
Your vision for the garden
How you want to use the space
Existing plants you want to keep, remove or relocate
Light, shade and changing seasonal conditions
Soil, drainage and other site conditions
Screening, privacy and boundaries
Colour, texture and overall planting style
Maintenance requirements and how much time you want to spend gardening
Plants you love — and plants you definitely don’t
Any problem areas or gardening challenges you’ve been struggling with

There’s plenty of opportunity to ask questions, talk plants and explore ideas along the way.

What’s included

🌿 Two-hour on-site consultation

I’ll travel to your Brisbane property and spend up to two hours walking through your garden with you, discussing the site and working through your ideas.

🌱 Personalised plant recommendations

After the consultation, you’ll receive a tailored list of plant recommendations selected for your garden, your conditions and your goals.

Recommendations can include suggested placement, quantities and notes about why each plant has been chosen.

📐 Planting plan

Where appropriate, I’ll provide a planting plan to help you translate the ideas we discuss into a practical layout.

This can help you understand what goes where, how plants relate to one another, and how the garden can develop over time.

🪴 Site preparation advice

Good gardens start with good preparation. I’ll provide practical advice about getting your site ready for planting, which may include:

Soil improvement
Drainage
Mulching
Removal of existing plants
Weed management
Bed preparation
Irrigation and watering considerations
Improving growing conditions for particular plants

☀️ Planting and placement advice

We’ll consider the conditions throughout your garden — including sun, shade, exposure, moisture and available space — so that plants are chosen and positioned with their eventual size and growing requirements in mind.

✂️ Ongoing garden advice

I can also provide guidance on how your garden will need to be cared for as it establishes, including pruning, watering, feeding, plant spacing and general maintenance considerations.

Who is this for?

A garden consultation can be useful if you:

Are starting a new garden
You have a blank canvas but don’t know where to begin.

Have an established garden that needs a rethink
Your garden has evolved over time and you’d like to bring it together into something more cohesive.

Have a difficult space
Too shady, too sunny, too wet, too dry, too narrow — we can work through the challenges and find plants and solutions suited to the site.

Love plants but need a plan
You’ve collected plenty of ideas (and possibly plenty of plants!) but need help figuring out how they should work together.

Want a more tropical or subtropical garden
We can explore plant combinations and design ideas that suit Brisbane’s climate while creating the atmosphere you’re after.

What you’ll walk away with

The goal isn’t simply to give you a list of plants.

It’s to give you clarity about what to do next.

After our consultation, you’ll have a better understanding of your garden’s opportunities and limitations, a considered selection of plants suited to your space, and practical advice to help you turn your ideas into reality.

You can then take the plan and implement it yourself, at your own pace.