![]() ![]() So we've got a deck up there which faces east which you can have breakfast at. Even in a small space, we've got lots of different areas to be utilised. JOHN PATRICK: I suppose locating discreet uses in different parts of the garden was part of the planning process for you? KATE SEDDON: Yeah and I find that very useful as well and the photos always - that first impression that you get - are so key in terms of looking around you, looking in the site itself, looking at what's beyond over the boundaries, looking in the street and what other people are doing and to sort of balance the elements of what you want to achieve within the garden with the broader landscape. I don't know about you Kate, but I always find it really useful to photograph a site because it's amazing how much you don't notice, but you can also, by using photographs, just draw over the top of them to get an idea of how you'll garden might look as you build it. JOHN PATRICK: The order in which you do things is quite important and the first step to consider in the design process is the site. They wanted to replicate some of that bushland, so the garden was very much designed around that basis. They've decided to move out of the leafy outer suburbs where they had a really quite expansive bushland garden. KATE SEDDON: Here we've got two professionals who are approaching retirement age. It's on an L-shaped block and the results are very striking - reflecting the owners quite specific requirements. I'm with designer Kate Seddon in Glen Iris in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and this garden is one of her recent creations. It means that you can really see the bones of the garden and that makes it a really good example in which to study the good basic principles of garden design. Now the garden in here is really quite compact and it's newly built. Well, what seems as if it might be quite complex is actually relatively simple, as long as you follow some basic principles of garden design. JOHN PATRICK: People often ask me how do you go about designing a home garden. ![]()
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