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Kew Project – Garden Design
Properties just don’t get more impressive than this. Built in 1860 by renowned designer John Beswicke (responsible for a number of impressive builds including MLC, Hawthorn Town Hall, Auburn Rd [...]
Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Arguably the most beautiful of the flowering trees, (especially in Ian’s eyes - hence why he used them in his last Chelsea entry), the Cornus florida, commonly known as Flowering [...]
Eton Terrace – Carolyn Grohmann – International Garden Designer
We stumbled upon UK designer Carolyn Grohmann in looking for inspiration for our Oxford project. Carolyn’s design aesthetic is innovative, texture driven and colour scheme led. She shares our approach [...]
We’re in our ‘Element’ with this fire pit
Sitting by a fire is the perfect way to maximise time outdoors. So the team at Ian Barker Gardens was both delighted and excited when they recently stumbled across the [...]
3 Wins at the 2017 Landscaping Victoria Industry Awards!
Congratulations to our extraordinary team - 3 wins at this year's Landscaping Victoria Industry Awards! Winning one for 'Hard Structures in the Landscape' (Camberwell project) and two for 'Residential Landscape [...]
Bayside Project – Garden Design
Back in 2015 our team was commissioned to give our Bayside clients a complete landscape make-over. The brief involved designing both the front and back garden areas to have [...]
Buxus sempervirens
Everyone’s favourite hedging plant, Buxus sempervirens (English Box or Common Box), is the perfect way to formalise any garden design - and that’s exactly why it was high up on [...]
Dan Pearson’s ‘Berkshire’ Property – International Garden Designer
Dan Pearson is certainly a name that gets us talking around the water cooler here in the office – and for all the right reasons! Dan’s historic ‘Berkshire’ property is [...]
Camberwell Project – Garden Design
Melbourne’s prestigious leafy suburb of Camberwell is well known for its grand, traditional homes, so its little wonder our team are in high demand for garden makeovers in this area. [...]
Luciano Giubbilei – Morocco Project – International Garden Designer
Fresh from graduating as a Landscape Architect, our newest edition to the Ian Barker family, Dave Forge recently shared with the team who he looks to for design inspiration – [...]