How does the design process start?

We set up a meeting to understand your needs and the space you are working with. We talk through ideas and materials and draw on our past projects to see how they might fit your home. After that we send a short questionnaire, and your answers together with the initial conversation form the foundation of a comprehensive project overview tailored to your new garden.

How do existing trees shape the design?

They shape it early. Ku-ring-gai's Local Environmental Plan is built to protect the canopy, so a good design works with the existing trees and levels rather than around a removal that may not be approved. Canopy cover targets influence where a pool, deck or driveway can sit well before DA stage, so we resolve those constraints at design rather than discovering them later.

Can you design for a sloping block?

Yes, and it is the norm here. Pymble sites are deep and often slope down toward reserves and creek lines, which brings retaining and level changes into the brief alongside the garden itself. Designing the levels properly is what makes terraces, lawn and pool areas sit comfortably with each other and with the house.

How small or large a project will you design?

Anything from a single considered courtyard through to a full garden with pool and entertaining areas. Our collection of projects and our experience let us confidently create garden designs and build landscapes of various forms.

Landscaped garden with lush lawn, mature trees, layered planting and natural stone stepping pavers.

LANDSCAPE DESIGN · Upper North Shore

Landscape Design in Pymble

Q: Does the same team carry the design through to the finished garden?

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.

Q: What if my project needs council approval?

Larger structures and pools may need a development application, and blocks bordering reserves or creek lines can be bushfire mapped, which affects materials and clearances. We factor this in during design and can prepare the documentation council requires.

For more than twenty years we have designed and built gardens across Sydney’s North Shore, and landscape design in Pymble is work we know well. It is a leafy, established suburb of large family homes on generous blocks, many with significant trees and bushland edges, where the brief is usually a considered family garden that connects to the house and sits comfortably among the canopy.

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 Pymble, 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 Large, leafy, sloping
COUNCIL Ku-ring-gai Council
KEY OVERLAY Tree canopy LEP + bushland edges

Why Pymble is different

Pymble is one of the greener, larger-block parts of the Upper North Shore, with grand homes on deep, often sloping sites that back onto reserves and creek lines. That setting brings retaining, tree protection and bushfire considerations into the brief alongside the garden itself. Ku-ring-gai’s Local Environmental Plan is built to protect the canopy, so a good design works with the existing trees and levels rather than around a removal that may not be approved.

Services in Pymble

Having completed projects across the North Shore, we understand the Pymble brief, from pools and entertaining terraces through to lawns, bushland-edge planting and full landscape builds on large, treed blocks. 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.

Pymble council & site notes

Ku-ring-gai Council

Pymble is within the Ku-ring-gai Council area, which runs one of the strictest tree-canopy LEPs on the North Shore. Canopy cover targets shape where a pool, deck or driveway can go before DA stage, and removing a significant tree without approval risks real penalties. Blocks bordering reserves or creek lines can be bushfire-mapped, which affects materials and clearances, and larger structures or pools may need a development application. We factor this in during design and can prepare the documentation council requires.

Pymble FAQs

Most Pymble briefs are a considered family garden that connects to the house and sits comfortably among the canopy. On these large, leafy, often sloping blocks that typically means resolving levels and retaining, planting that suits a bushland edge, lawn areas, and entertaining terraces, with a pool where the site allows.