Garden Portfolio
Explore our completed garden design projects featuring eco, waterwise and native landscapes.
York Garden
Client
Melissa Welsh
Year
2025
Kim worked closely with Melissa of Melissa Welsh Style & Design to create a modern Australian garden around her new, off-grid home in WA’s Avon Valley. The site presented significant challenges including strong winds, an arid environment, and extreme temperature variations from minus five degrees Celsius to above 45 in summer.
With heavy clay soil, fire risk, and a limited water supply, the plant selection and garden design focused on resilience, low water use, and fire-resistant, drought-tolerant native plants.
Using ‘borrowed views’ across the valley and a curated selection of garden treasures collected over time, Kim designed a space filled with seasonal flowers, wind breaks, and sun protection, perfectly suited to the landscape, home, and family’s lifestyle.
Plantings to continue in years two and three.
Dunsborough Garden
Client
Barb & Clint Black
Year
2025
Barb and Clint Black of Blax Builders have created a dreamy coastal home in Dunsborough, Western Australia. They worked with Kim to design and plant a low-maintenance native garden that fits seamlessly within their suburban block.
With a north-west aspect, the site receives abundant natural light, harsh summer sun and a steady sea breeze. The planting palette was chosen for resilience. Grevilleas and Kangaroo Paws - which both feature in the garden - can handle the site conditions, support local wildlife and bring a calm, grounded feel to the family’s outdoor spaces.
Practicality was also essential, with an additional parking bay and a clear path to the outdoor shower for sandy post-surf rinse-offs.
The garden will need watering through its first summer, gradually reducing as the plants establish and settle into the coastal environment.
Yallingup Garden
Client
Year
2025
This 20-year-old garden in the Yallingup hills was ready for a thoughtful refresh. The owners worked with Kim to create a new landscape featuring native plantings, a dedicated firepit area, and strategic screening to soften the visibility of the water tank and shed.
The existing eroded steps were replaced with a natural rock walkway, offering safer access between spaces while blending seamlessly with the surrounding bushland. The result is a garden that feels grounded in its environment, renewed, resilient and connected to the landscape.
