To transform a view-facing outdoor area into a private sanctuary without interrupting the Brisbane city and mountain outlook. The design also needed to manage harsh western sun while integrating with the existing tropical garden style.
Brooke’s Blooms created a layered outdoor space using custom-shaped crazy paved steppers, landscape mounds, a fire pit zone and a reclaimed timber arbour. Tropical planting was carefully positioned to preserve the view, with Calatheas, Thunbergia vines, a feature palm, Dioons and a water feature adding softness, shade, movement and atmosphere.
A distinctive garden sanctuary that feels both modern and natural. The finished space frames the view, creates places to gather and adds depth, texture and calm through considered material choices and tropical planting.
Location Holland Park West, Brisbane
Project Type Residential garden design and outdoor entertaining space
Service Landscape Design / Landscape Construction / Garden Maintenance / Horticultural Consultation
Scope Fire pit area, pathways, arbour, seating, tropical planting, landscape mounds and water feature
Planting Style Tropical planting designed around views and western sun
Key Features Crazy paved steppers, reclaimed timber arbour, floating spotted gum seat, rendered concrete wall, Calatheas, Thunbergia, Dioons and feature palm
This is a residential design-and-build garden in Holland Park West, on Brisbane's southside. Brooke's Blooms turned a view-facing outdoor area into a private sanctuary without interrupting the city and mountain outlook.
Brooke's Blooms designed and built a layered outdoor space - custom crazy-paved steppers, landscape mounds, a fire-pit zone, a reclaimed-timber arbour and a water feature - with tropical planting positioned to preserve the view.
Key features include custom crazy-paved steppers, a reclaimed-timber arbour, a floating spotted-gum seat, a fire-pit zone, a rendered concrete wall and a water feature - layered together for shade, movement and atmosphere while keeping the outlook open.
The planting is tropical, positioned to preserve the view and handle harsh western sun - Calatheas, Thunbergia vines, Dioons and a feature palm. The layered scheme softens the structure and adds depth. See our horticultural approach.
The trick is positioning and scale - lower, layered planting that frames the outlook rather than blocking it, with any structures placed to preserve sight lines. At Holland Park West, the design was planned around the city and mountain views from day one.
Western sun is managed with shade structures - here a reclaimed-timber arbour - and hardy, sun-tolerant planting positioned to cope with afternoon heat. A horticultural assessment matches species to each aspect of the site.
Yes. Brooke's Blooms designs and constructs outdoor entertaining features - fire-pit zones, seating, paving, arbours and water features - integrated into the overall garden design, as at Holland Park West.
Yes. Brooke's Blooms designs, builds and maintains gardens across Holland Park and Brisbane's southside, plus the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. Our full-service team handles design through to ongoing care.
