Brunswick Backyard Blitz

Transformation of an outdoor space heaving with knee-high grasssy weeds and a 60 year old invasive Wisteria into a beautiful backyard haven.

Design and plant choices

Wild Urban Green designed deep, sweeping garden beds around the perimeter of the backyard, offering ample space for layered plantings to provide seclusion and interest.

We curated a diverse plant list, creating a broad range of colour, texture and form, including trees, shrubs, low bushes, flowers and groundcovers designed to complement each other and the space. Brachychiton 'Jerilderie Red', supported by native underplantings, was chosen to screen the unit to the south.

Patio rehab

We softened the existing rectangle patio by the inclusion of a curved corten steel herb bed, designed for easy access from the kitchen and filled with humus-rich soil ready for planting culinary treats. And we added a step to the patio, to invite people up onto the grass terrace.

Wild Urban Green’s hard landscaping superhero, Chris, built a pergola from rough-sawn timbers, beside which we planted an ornamental grape to provide summer protection to the clients' kitchen window and the terrace.

Outlook

The picture window looking onto the south sideway now looks onto an enchanting scene of Japanese Maple 'Butterfly' with Heuchera 'Peach Flambe' and Lily Turf Liriope muscari.

Turf will be planted on the well prepared lawn terrace in Spring.

We’ll return in six months to see how the plantings have filled in and the shrubs have begun their job of screening the fences.

Timeline photos below showcase Wild Urban Green’s superpowers…