LANDSCAPE DESIGN · Lower North Shore
Landscape Design in Artarmon
For more than twenty years we have designed and built gardens across Sydney’s Lower North Shore, and landscape design in Artarmon is work we know well. It is a suburb of established family homes on comfortable, generally level blocks, where the brief is usually a versatile family garden: a place to entertain, room for children to play, and screening from close neighbours without closing the space in.
As your project gets started, we set up a meeting to understand your needs and the space you’re working with. We talk through ideas and materials, and draw on our past projects to see how they might fit your home. After that meeting we send over a quick questionnaire for you to complete. The questionnaire, together with the insights gathered from our initial conversation, forms the foundation of a comprehensive project overview tailored to your new garden.
With experience within and around Artarmon, our understanding of the area is extensive. Our collection of projects and our experience let us confidently create garden designs and build landscapes of various forms from a single considered courtyard through to a full garden, pool and entertaining area. If you have a question about our services or your own project, call us on 1300 460 690.
- TYPICAL BLOCK Level–gentle, family lots
- COUNCIL Willoughby City Council
- KEY OVERLAY Tree preservation + heritage streets
Why Artarmon is different
Artarmon blocks tend to be flatter and more regular than the steep harbourside sites nearby, which changes the emphasis. Less of the budget goes into retaining and more into how the garden lives the connection from the house to a deck, a generous lawn, and structured planting that gives the space form year round. It is a suburb where a well-resolved family garden, built to last, matters more than dramatic level changes.
Services in Artarmon
Having completed projects in Artarmon and across the Lower North Shore, we understand the family-garden brief, from decks and entertaining terraces through to lawns, hedging and full landscape builds. Our team includes landscape architects, project managers, pool builders, structural landscapers and horticulturalists, so a project moves from concept to a finished, planted garden without being handed between separate businesses.
A project in the Artarmon area
The Artarmon Family Garden was designed as a versatile entertaining and play space for a growing family. Decking off the rear of the house extends the internal floorboards for indoor–outdoor living, with casual seating, dining and a BBQ kitchen. A generous lawn is bordered by lush lillypilly hedges for screening and structure, softened by a row of snow pears and layered planting, with a children's fort in the rear corner and contemporary white planters finishing the terrace.
Artarmon council & site notes
Willoughby City Council
Artarmon is within the Willoughby City Council area. Established trees are commonly protected, so removal or significant pruning usually needs consent, and it is better to design around a tree you are likely to keep than to bank on a removal that may not be approved. Some works proceed as exempt or complying development, while larger changes, pools or work in a heritage-affected street may need a development application. We factor this in during design and can prepare the documentation council requires.
“The lillypilly hedges do all the hard work, screening the neighbours while giving the garden its shape. What we didn't expect was how much the snow pears would soften it, and the layered planting behind them makes the whole space feel lush rather than boxed in. The white planters on the terrace tie it back to the house beautifully. Every element earns its place.”
— James, Artarmon
Artarmon FAQs
Yes. We have designed and built gardens across Sydney's Lower North Shore for more than twenty years, and landscape design in Artarmon is work we know well. Having completed projects in Artarmon and across the Lower North Shore, our understanding of the area is extensive.
Usually a versatile family garden. Artarmon is a suburb of established family homes on comfortable, generally level blocks, and the brief tends to cover a place to entertain, room for children to play, and screening from close neighbours without closing the space in.
Artarmon blocks tend to be flatter and more regular than the steep harbourside sites nearby, which changes the emphasis. Less of the budget goes into retaining and more into how the garden lives: the connection from the house to a deck, a generous lawn, and structured planting that gives the space form year round.
We set up a meeting to understand your needs and the space you're working with, talking through ideas and materials and drawing on our past projects to see how they might fit your home. We then send a quick questionnaire for you to complete, which together with the insights from that first conversation forms the foundation of a comprehensive project overview tailored to your new garden.
Artarmon is within the Willoughby City Council area.
It depends on the scope. Some works proceed as exempt or complying development, while larger changes, pools or work in a heritage-affected street may need a development application. We factor this in during design and can prepare the documentation council requires.
Established trees are commonly protected in the Willoughby area, so removal or significant pruning usually needs consent. It is better to design around a tree you are likely to keep than to bank on a removal that may not be approved.
Yes. Our team includes landscape architects, project managers, pool builders, structural landscapers and horticulturalists, so a project moves from concept to a finished, planted garden without being handed between separate businesses.
The Artarmon Family Garden was designed as a versatile entertaining and play space for a growing family. Decking off the rear of the house extends the internal floorboards for indoor and outdoor living, with casual seating, dining and a kitchen area complete with BBQ, fridge and sink. A generous lawn is bordered by lush lillypilly hedges for screening and structure, softened by a row of snow pears and layered planting, with a children's fort in the rear corner and contemporary white planters finishing the terrace.
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