WURUNDJERI WOI WURRUNG COUNTRY / MELBOURNE

Gardens
that belong
here.

We design and build indigenous gardens for city homes — beginning with what grew on each address before the city did.

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01 / START WITH THE ADDRESS

Before the
garden,
the place.

We don't start with a look. We start with the ecology of your street — what grew here, where the water moves, what habitat remains nearby — then design and install a native garden that lets this small piece of Melbourne take part again.

01.1PlaceCOUNTRY / BIOREGION / EVC
01.2SoilSTRUCTURE / LIFE / INPUTS
01.3WaterFLOW / HOLD / INFILTRATE
01.4PlantsGROUND → SHRUB → CANOPY
01.5HabitatLOGS / ROCK / LITTER / WATER
01.6TimeESTABLISH / CHANGE / REMEMBER
DISCOVER WHAT GREW AT YOUR ADDRESS →
02 / OUR WORK
Watercolour street elevation of a native front garden design for a Victorian house in Hawthorn East, with a red-flowering yellow gum, banksia and flowering understorey behind a green iron fence
STREET ELEVATION / HAWTHORN EAST
HAWTHORN EAST

A native garden next door.

DESIGNFRONT GARDEN
EVC68 / CREEKLINE GRASSY WOODLAND
SPECIES20
CANOPYRED-FLOWERING YELLOW GUM
PATHRECLAIMED BRICK
FLOWERINGEVERY MONTH
STATUSIN DESIGN
VIEW THE FULL DESIGN SHEET↗
03 / AFTER THE BUILD

A garden isn't
finished when we leave.

New plantings take a few seasons to settle. We can stay on through that time — watching how the garden responds and stepping in when it needs us.

TEND / 01

Care while it establishes.

Ongoing ecological garden care, observation and seasonal intervention from the people who built it.

EXPLORE TEND →
REGISTRY / 02

Measure what it gives back.

A living ecological record of the garden, following its contribution to biodiversity and habitat over time.

VIEW THE REGISTRY →
Natasha and Tyson, co-founders of Gardener & Son, standing together on a grass path through a mature native garden
04 / CRAFT, NOT SCALE

The two
of us.

Gardener & Son is a small practice by design. We read the place, build the garden with our own hands, and keep coming back to see what it does.

READ THE FIELD GUIDE →

NATASHA — CO-FOUNDER / GARDEN DESIGNER
TYSON — CO-FOUNDER / GARDEN DESIGNER
05 / WHERE GARDENS BEGIN

Your garden
begins here.

Tell us about your place. We'll start with what's already there, what once belonged there, and what the garden could become.

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