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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’s Morocco Project – International Garden Designer
Fresh from graduating as a Landscape Architect in Melbourne, our newest edition to the Ian Barker family, Dave Forge recently shared with the team who he looks to for garden [...]
Bepal Outdoor Lounge Chair
Enter our Canterbury office and the first thing you’ll notice (apart from the fabulous team greeting you!) is the very stylish chair so lovingly positioned in the corner. The team [...]
Digitalis purpurea
Providing striking colour and architectural height to borders, Digitalis purpurea, commonly known as Common Foxglove, was an obvious choice to us when designing the garden beds at our Camberwell project. [...]
East Malvern Project – Garden Design
Last August we began construction on our East Malvern project. Our clients asked us to design a beautiful and functional rear garden to transform what was almost a blank canvas into [...]
A garden for a mill house
Arne Maynard is an award-winning garden designer who shares similar design aesthetics to our team here at Ian Barker Gardens.Central to Arne Maynard’s work as a garden designer is his [...]
Acer ‘Norwegian Sunset’
Sheer beauty is just one of the many reasons the Acer ‘Norwegian Sunset’ was chosen as a feature tree at our Malvern project.The Acer is an attractive medium-sized deciduous ornamental [...]