Steep Landscape Design:

Leila Place, Pullenvale

The Brief

This beautiful contemporary home sits high on a hill top in Pullenvale with magnificent forest and sunset views. The brief was to beautify the very steep embankment providing the only access down to the main garden, plant up a large garden bed below the pool and provide screening from a neighbouring property down one side of the garden.

The Result

Central to this steep landscape design was the creation of large timber-framed stairs filled with gravel, which connected the embankment to the garden while adding structure and character to the landscape.. The staircase was flanked by a balanced planting of large and medium leafed plants with taller Heliconias on the one side to break up a large wall space. Big granite rocks run down the embankment giving the impression of a river bed running through the centre of the garden bed area, whilst huge sandstone blocks provide a continuous retaining wall at the bottom for all of the garden beds. A fire pit area has since been created and fits into the embankment perfectly to finish off this neat and attractive garden.