8 Landscaping Ideas For A Garden Renovation (Adelaide) SA.

If you’ve decided to renovate your front or backyard, transforming what’s been neglected into the dream garden you’ve always dreamt about, the process starts with turning your ideas into a plan.
Start with what spaces or outdoor areas you’d like to have, who will be using them and what elements or features you’d like to include. You may also like to choose a theme or style. Is low maintenance important, or do you like gardening?
Next work out what budget is affordable for you. There’s little point discussing a plan that will cost $100,000 to build if you can afford $50,000.

Sometimes with a garden renovation Adelaide clients need to accept some compromises, but often you’ll be surprised how affordable the project becomes with clever landscaping ideas and landscape design solutions such as substituting the types of materials used at the construction stage.
Wet laying natural stone pavers can be expensive compared to using concrete pavers for example. Rock retaining walls are very labour intensive and therefore will cost significantly more than using concrete blocks that have a textured face emulating the look of stone. A large custom made concrete pool is far more expensive than a pre-made fibreglass swimming pool.

Read on to see some projects completed by Master Landscapers Hand Made Gardens with landscaping ideas and pictures you can use for inspiration when discussing your makeover.

Courtyard Garden Renovation Adelaide

Many people with a courtyard home think they can’t have a wonderful outdoor space to sit and relax or enjoy the look and sound water makes cascading from a waterfall because they only have a small outside area to work with. This is definitely not the case as you can see with this lovely renovation to a courtyard garden at Glenelg.

Landscape designers took all the clients wishes onboard and with some clever landscaping ideas and garden design solutions came up with a plan, on budget. See the landscape design plans and work completed over at our portfolio.

Sloping Backyard Garden Renovation Adelaide

Sloping blocks always present a challenge. Creating flat, usable areas nearly always involves costly soil and rock excavation, retaining and consideration of water runoff. Wherever possible working with the slope will provide the best outcome as demonstrated with this garden makeover at Panorama.

Terracing the slope is another way of reducing the height of retaining walls, excavation and costs while regaining level areas.

Native Garden Renovation Adelaide

One of the most popular gardens requested is one that contains lots of native plants. These days there are many natives grown with different foliage and flower colour to suit any garden. Low maintenance and drought tolerant, local indigenous planting can also look stunning as you can see from these pictures of a native landscape design.

Take a look at this backyard and front garden landscaping project the landscapers from Hand Made Gardens completed for clients at one of Adelaide’s popular southern suburbs, Victor Harbour
You can also read more about landscaping native gardens across Adelaide with an article from our library.

New Home Garden Renovation Adelaide

Moving into a new home is exciting, but sometimes the outdoor living areas are forgotten until you realise you’re surrounded by dirt and mud.
New home landscaping provides a blank slate to work, so often it’s not so much of a renovation to the garden but the realisation of your dream garden from scratch. The costs of landscaping new homes can be included within the bank finance too, so when you’re ready to move, your outdoor areas will be as fresh as the inside.

Clients of this new home build bought the adjacent block at the same time and were after a plan and execution to make use of all the space they had.
See how it looked after all the new home landscape construction work was completed plus the hardscape and softscape plans.

Low Maintenance Garden Renovation Adelaide

Yep, it’s official, just about everyone is after gardens that require little maintenance. Remember though that even native gardens do require some water and love to make them look their best.
Using Male Sterile Kikuyu to provide a great low maintenance and drought tolerant lawn is one of the many landscape design solutions used for this garden renovation. The transformation will amaze you.

Hardwood timber decking doesn’t require the maintenance of a softwood timber deck, especially if you use Merbau for the decking.
Read more about sealing timber decks or the detailed garden makeover for clients at Oaklands Park.

Large Back Garden Renovation Adelaide

There are large gardens, then there are super-sized areas requiring landscaping like the project Master Landscaper Martyn Hand and his team of licensed landscapers completed at Willunga.

Backing on to their winery, a weeping Mulberry was to become the garden’s feature, surrounded by a stone wall and path. One of the clever low maintenance ideas adopted for this project taking advantage of new advances in lawn care was the inclusion of an automatic robotic lawnmower.

Garden Renovation With Outdoor Entertaining Area

The most popular aspect of a garden renovation Adelaide home owners request, is an area for entertaining with family and/or friends. Here at the base of the backyard is a sunken outdoor living area with stone wall, raised garden bed and hardwood timber bench seats. Private, peaceful and a great spot to enjoy good times with family and friends.

A pebble floor makes it safe for other garden design elements like a firepit or BBQ.

Garden Renovation With Feature Timber Deck

Hardwood timber deck builders from Hand Made Gardens were called upon to complete the renovation to a garden at Glen Osmond. The top of the very steep backyard looked over the house but there was no way to sit and relax while you took in the view.

See what was accomplished with this garden makeover using some clever landscaping ideas and innovative garden design solutions to create a stunning, low maintenance and practical outdoor living area.

One of the biggest advantages of using Hand Made Gardens is the scope of garden landscaping services offered.
With landscape designers planning and designing the layout of the renovation through to all the landscaping construction work completed by licensed landscapers, the whole project and process is handled professionally by the one company, ensuring the highest quality and best outcome.

With over 35 years experience landscaping Adelaide outdoor living areas, you can rest assured the team from Hand Made Gardens will deliver a transformation the whole family will enjoy for many years to come and at a price you can afford because it has been built within your budget.