The Delicate Balance between Sun and Light
We love our light-filled outdoor spaces but balancing light with excessive sun can be a tricky landscape design challenge. Ian Barker explains that establishing where the sun is positioned at [...]
We love our light-filled outdoor spaces but balancing light with excessive sun can be a tricky landscape design challenge. Ian Barker explains that establishing where the sun is positioned at [...]
There has been a pendulum swing between curves and straight lines since landscape design came into being. Gardens with mostly straight lines are more formal in appearance than those with [...]
Anyone who has been following our garden design work over the years, will know how much we love our perennials. Our passion in creating gardens with naturalistic planting schemes would [...]
In a very picturesque part of England, just an hour’s drive north-west of central London on a major tourist route, is The Jellicoe Water Gardens, a must visit parklands when [...]
The ornamental Salvias or Sages (yes, all relatives of culinary Sage) are an exceptional group of garden plants that just keep on giving – masses of flowers that is. Ian [...]
There’s nothing like a few challenges and this garden design project on the Mornington Peninsula certainly provided them. The site is particularly steep and the spectacular new home by Architects [...]
Ian Barker Gardens were delighted to be working with Powell & Glenn, Melbourne-based architectural practice, on a recent landscape design project in Blairgowrie, after all, the renowned practice is the [...]
Now here is a wonderful Christmas gift that keeps on giving. Farmer – The Cookbook contains a variety of contemporary and traditional dishes by top chefs, including Maggie Beer, Stephanie [...]
The dense spreading canopy of the native tree Moonah is a common feature of some streetscapes in Melbourne, where it proved a fairly inauspicious street tree over the years. However, [...]
When downsizing, property owners can often feel a sense of loss in what they’ve given up. Our Canterbury client was experiencing just that when she approached us midway through 2017, [...]