location northcote design andrew brophy
construction andrew brophy / stuart hale
south crescent cross
A largely native landscape of clear geometry, made with salvaged 2nd hand timber and bricks, and concrete paver seconds, on a gently sloping Northcote site.
The bricks were used to terrace the site, creating three distinct garden zones: close to the house a paved terrace and pond in a local Melbourne grassland planting, in the centre a wide gravel terrace skirted by native trees and shrubs and at the rear a more exotic planting framed by a steel and timber grapevine arbor.
dodonea viscosa
washingtonia robusta
elaeocarpus reticulatus
eucalyptus leucoxylon ‘rosea’
kniphofia thomsonii
viminaria juncea
olea europaea
chrysocephallum semi-papposum
crowea exalata
phormium tenax
cupressus sempervirens ‘glauca’
cercis canadensis ‘forest pansy’
orthrosanthus multiflorus
anigozanthus flavidus ‘big red’
banksia marginata
bulbine bulbosa
linum marginale
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