Backyard Landscape Design Ideas Turns Garden Renovation into a Living Picture.

A lovely couple residing within Adelaide’s eastern suburb of Beaumont had a vision to completely renovate their backyard. Landscape plans had been drawn up but failed to meet the practical challenges of the slope and easement along the back fence.
After discussing their vision and explaining what outdoor living spaces they were after, Alby from Visual Landscape Gardening offered some landscape design ideas that could be incorporated to construct the picture the clients had envisioned while also keeping within their budget.

The brief was to completely renovate the back garden, removing all the old retaining walls, vegetation, paving, plus a portion of the fence and to transform it into a easy low maintenance area with a number of useable spaces for children to play and adults to sit and relax.

Complete backyard renovations are a specialty of Visual Landscape Gardening across all suburbs of Adelaide, able to handle all aspects of the landscaping project, from initial landscape design phase to hardscape construction works, gaining engineering reports for council approval as required.

For this tired back garden, all existing paving, vegetation, retaining wall blocks and sleepers were removed. The entire area was excavated before a new compacted base was introduced for construction of the retaining walls.
Two level areas for children to play were created, retained with concrete blocks and matching bullnose coping. A single step to each area was constructed and to take away excess water, an ag-drain was installed behind all walls, back-filled with quarry rubble.

With the addition of ‘Male Sterile Kikuyu’ laid on a bed of sandy loam, irrigated with new Wi-fi automatic pop-up sprinklers, the backyard renovation was starting to reveal itself.
New pavers were laid on a compacted quarry rubble base, bedded down with PaveLock to create a path along the side of the home. A new garden shed was built, and the hot water service was relocated next to the air conditioner.

Now that an extra area was created for the children to play on, it was time to attend to the adults.
A large timber ‘pavilion’ was built in the corner of the ‘L’ shaped garden so as to take in views of both directions.

Paved with the same pavers for the path, the new area provides an all-weather space to sit and relax. Timber privacy screens and lights make it useable all day and night.

The garden beds were prepared, connected on a separate line from the lawn to the automatic irrigation system and top dressed with an organic mulch. The plants selected were chosen for their low maintenance, suitability to the climate and for their lovely contrasting colours against the lawn, pavers and fence.

Looking out from the garden pavilion to the other side also provides a great vantage point to keep an eye on the children playing, but this time in the water.
Pool landscaping Adelaide residents require to transform their pool into a tropical oasis is another specialty of Visual Landscape Gardening, in fact many clients prefer the team of licensed landscapers to handle the whole project including construction of the pool.

Moss rocks, organic mulch and the right plants harmonise with the look and feel of this now tropical looking space.

Whether eating at the table under the verandah or under the new timber pavilion, just listening to the water cascading provides a soothing, calming place to be at the end of a stressful day.

The back garden landscape design has now transformed from an idea, a vision, into the dream backyard renovation so now, the only thing left to do is enjoy it.