At Platylobium Landscape Design, we offer three tailored landscape consultation services to help you get started on your garden journey:

1. General Hour Landscape Consult: This is the perfect starting point for anyone looking to explore landscape design. We’ll provide inspiration, advice on planning, and an overview of costs involved in creating your ideal landscape. This consultation helps clarify the design process, planning permissions, plant selection, and budgeting.

2. Maintenance Consultation: Whether you're unsure about pruning, fertilizing, or caring for your plants, this hands-on consultation will guide you through maintaining a healthy garden. With expert advice from a qualified horticulturist, you’ll learn the secrets to creating a flourishing and well-maintained garden.

3. Backyard Biodiversity Consultation: Ideal for those in the Melbourne Metro Area who want to transform their backyard into a haven for local wildlife. We’ll help you incorporate indigenous plants to attract insects, birds, and butterflies, fostering a vibrant ecosystem.

These consultations are a great way to gain expert guidance and get your garden project off to the right start.

At Platylobium Landscape Design, we offer five targeted consultation and design packages for smaller projects, offering great value for those who aren't ready to dive into a full landscape design:

1. Small Space Design Package ($2,000 + GST): Perfect for compact areas like balconies or courtyards up to 10m². This package provides tailored design advice, an onsite assessment, a materials palette, low-maintenance plant recommendations, and recommended contractors for a smooth and stylish transformation.

2. Pot Styling Consultation Package ($2,000 + GST): Designed for those looking to incorporate potted plants into their indoor or outdoor spaces, this package offers a detailed pot styling plan, including plant and pot selection, layout, and a quotation for supply and installation.

3. Landscapers Design Package ($2,000 + GST): Ideal for clients working with a landscaper who already have a rough design but need it scaled with dimensions and materials. This package ensures clarity for the implementation phase and helps determine accurate construction costs.

4. New Home/Renovation Construction Package ($2500 + GST): Designed for those in the early stages of home construction, this package provides essential landscape planning that works alongside builders and landscapers to avoid future challenges. It consists of three phases—landscape concept, hardscape construction, and planting—ensuring that your landscape design integrates seamlessly with your home construction.

5. General Landscape Design Consultation Package ($1,540 + GST): This package is for those who need expert advice but prefer to design their own landscape. It includes budget planning, hardscape layout suggestions, plant selection, and guidance on sketching out a base plan to move forward with confidence.

These packages offer excellent value, giving you professional insight and guidance for smaller project without the need to commit to a full-scale landscape design.

We bring your landscape concept design to life with our 3D landscape design software.

We can quickly turn your blank canvas or garden makeover into a 3D landscape design that will help you visualise the scale, use of materials and a give a visual representation of what your finished design will look like making it is easier to understand.

With 3D landscape design you can see exactly what you are going to achieve. It will make you feel confident with the investment in construction.

3D landscape design is a representation of proposed real-life version of your landscape that will be constructed.

We can show you shade from that feature tree, how your existing house will work in with the new landscape and how the planting compliments the hard landscaping.

The landscape design process allows you to make those changes on paper rather than during the construction and is therefore more cost effective. The 3D landscape design will allow you to visualise, change and bring the design ideas together quickly and efficiently, preventing headaches during the construction phase.

Concept plans can provide you with guidance for implementing your landscape ideas. These plans give an overall perspective of the landscaping design, including hard landscaping components and a recommended planting schedule. You’ll get a sense of major layout ideas as well as plant type suggestions.

We create small and large-scale landscape master plans, from residential through to those for industrial estates and property management planning. A master landscape plan takes a holistic approach to your outdoor space for future planning, including seasonal changes. The master plan defines a long-term vision for the landscape, determines a budget and communicates the design phases that will bring it to life.

Planting plans are often necessary for planning permits. We also do plant layouts on the ground. A planting plan will map out what plants go where, to create a landscape that optimises your space. This plan will consider aspect, soil conditions and goals for your landscape. It will show the location, sizes and species of all new and existing plants, along with a plant schedule for your easy reference.

This package provides the detailed information required to proceed with construction and is provided after completion of the landscape concept plans. At the end of this process, you will be provided with detailed construction drawings for you’re a landscaper, engineer, builder, or pool builder ready for the next step in the construction process.

What’s included…

1. List of all design finishes

2. Plan of all surface treatments

3. Vision board of all materials selections

4. Sectional elevation drawings

5. Scaled dimension plans

6. Details of existing landscape to remain

*Please note the construction design package is quoted following the sign off of the landscape concept design package

Planting plans are often necessary for planning permits. We also do plant layouts on the ground. A planting plan will map out what plants go where, to create a landscape that optimises your space. This plan will consider aspect, soil conditions and goals for your landscape. It will show the location, sizes and species of all new and existing plants, along with a plant schedule for your easy reference.

Planting plans are often necessary for planning permits. We also do plant layouts on the ground. A planting plan will map out what plants go where, to create a landscape that optimises your space. This plan will consider aspect, soil conditions and goals for your landscape. It will show the location, sizes and species of all new and existing plants, along with a plant schedule for your easy reference.

Let us take care of the project management for you. We’ll seamlessly run your project from inception to completion. Many years of experience managing large-scale projects, such as mine rehabilitation, development approvals, environmental assessments and developments means we have our processes down pat. We can also help with small and large residential, commercial, council, industrial and environmental property management.

After the design is confirmed and we move forward to construction, we offer a few options:

1. An external contractor recommended by us

2. Tender to 3 landscape contractors

3. Plant sourcing and layout done by Platylobium

4. Engage your own contractors