Yearning for Paradise?

You can have one outside your back door!

Do you think your garden or backyard could be improved?
Let us design a garden that could be your own piece of Utopia!

Arcadia Sustainable Design can help transform your garden into a beautiful and functional part of your home. We can create gardens that you will enjoy spending time in and inviting guests to.

We design gardens that not only look and feel wonderful but will be sustainable. This involves developing a garden design that requires little added water to maintain and considers its impact on the local and global environment.

A good garden or landscape design considers not only having the the right plants in the right places but also having garden spaces or 'rooms' that are the right size, shape and placing. It is these garden spaces that are the part of the landscape that you will be living in and enjoying your garden from.

A sustainable, waterwise garden can be an oasis - that cooling sanctuary in parched summer months or sunny refuge in cooler times. We will work with you to create a design that you will be enthusiastic about. One that will improve your lifestyle as well as the value of your home.

Gary Shadforth - Arcadia Sustainable Design - 0431 022 953

gary@arcadiasustainabledesign.com.au

Who are we?
Arcadia Sustainable Design is based in Melbourne and caters to the Melbourne metropolitain area as well as regional Victoria. We have a strong and varied background in horticulture, design and education. This has also included providing education in sustainability and science, including natural ecology and human impacts upon it. Drawing on this background, we have special strengths particularly in:

Sustainable gardens
We have a commitment to sustainable practices and an understanding in incorporating them in garden designs. This includes the use of landscape materials, the choice and placement of plants, and the importance of growing our own fresh food. The need to minimise the use of water while keeping the garden healthy and attractive is very important.

We believe that urban gardens should provide some haven for wildlife, contributing to protecting our biodiversity

Nature gardens
Our understanding of the ecology of plants also gives us a way to create an authentic indigenous garden. A landscape of indigenous plants doesn’t need to look like scruffy, unkempt scrub. We can design a natural garden that will be beautiful and be an attractive haven for you as well as wildlife.

Children’s gardens
Our strong background in botanical and sustainability education includes working at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. This included participation in the creation and use of the Children’s Garden.

The insight into how children (and adults) appreciate and interact with garden spaces has been invaluable in our understanding of garden design.

Learning landscapes
Our education and teaching experience has seen that students are more effectively engaged in an environment where they feel stimulated. School grounds can extend the resources of the classroom to become learning spaces in their own right.

We can assist educators in planning toward developing school grounds, purposely designed to be the effective and engaging educational places they should be.