Secret Gardens

Secret Gardens Secret Gardens is a landscape architecture, construction and horticulture company based in Sydney. Your Garden. Your Story. Your Place. Feel part of it.

Dedicated, knowledgeable and committed to bringing your story to life, our team taps into its diverse skill set and digs into the details while constantly keeping the big picture in mind. Every step of the way, always by your side, confident in the outcome.

Burradoo details, including a sculpture designed by Secret Gardens for one of our favourite clients.Landscape design and...
02/06/2026

Burradoo details, including a sculpture designed by Secret Gardens for one of our favourite clients.

Landscape design and construction by
Photography by Nicholas Watt

01/06/2026

‘Dizzy Heights’ on a sparkling blue day.

Gardens should invite intrigue, prompting questions about their intent, their making, and the quiet stories they hold. A...
29/05/2026

Gardens should invite intrigue, prompting questions about their intent, their making, and the quiet stories they hold. At times, that intrigue is immediate: a subtle opening in the planting, drawing you forward, encouraging exploration beyond what is first revealed.

Glebe Point Manor.

Landscape design and construction by
Photography by Nicholas Watt

Our Skyline project at Circular Quay in Sydney creates a series of quiet destination points within a dense urban context...
27/05/2026

Our Skyline project at Circular Quay in Sydney creates a series of quiet destination points within a dense urban context. High tables and stools form informal gathering spaces for staff to pause, meet, and connect, while layered planting softens the surrounding cityscape.

The result is a setting that encourages ease, clarity, and brief moments of reset throughout the working day, framing calm within the energy of the city.

Landscape design, construction, and horticultural care by
Photography by Nicholas Watt

With bedrock sitting not far beneath the surface, a pair of advanced olives were elevated within corten steel planters, ...
27/05/2026

With bedrock sitting not far beneath the surface, a pair of advanced olives were elevated within corten steel planters, designed over time to arch gracefully above the driveway and frame the arrival experience.

Landscape design, construction, and horticultural care by
Photography by Nicholas Watt

Positioned well away from the main pool, this plunge pool becomes a more intimate retreat within the garden, quietly con...
22/05/2026

Positioned well away from the main pool, this plunge pool becomes a more intimate retreat within the garden, quietly connected to the water beyond. Layered planting heightens the sense of enclosure, creating privacy while carefully curating and limiting outward views.

Landscape design, construction, and horticultural care by
Photography by Nicholas Watt

20/05/2026

As Creative Director of Secret Gardens, I am constantly searching for work that expands the conversation around landscape and place. Over the past three years, extensive time spent visiting gardens throughout California has introduced me to a remarkable community of landscape architects and designers, many of whom have been generous in sharing both their projects and perspectives.

Among them, Bernard Trainor and the team at Ground Studio Landscape Architecture. During my most recent visit, I sat down with Bernard to discuss the ideas that shape his practice — the relationship between art, landscape and client, and the evolving challenges of leading a thoughtful design studio. His work reflects his passion and consideration for client needs, where each garden feels inseparable from the people it is created for.

And Bernard, apologies for the soft focus — perhaps it was simply too much shared experience for the lens to keep up with.

To the many creative minds I reconnected with, and the new faces I now consider friends, thank you. I look forward to seeing some of you again in September.😉. A big thank you to my dear friend Fleur Flannery from for making this amazing trip happen.

20/05/2026

Working in Sydney, we are familiar with steep and complex sites, but this garden by reframes the challenge in a compelling way. Perched high above the city with views toward the Oakland Bay Bridge, the project uses a series of cantilevered corten lookouts to heighten the experience of exposure and elevation. They are dramatic interventions — unapologetically architectural in their expression and certainly not for the faint hearted.

In contrast, the courtyard offers a quieter spatial experience, where enclosure, texture and planting create a sense of calm and retreat from the expansive outlook beyond. The balance between exposure and refuge has been handled with remarkable clarity.

Thank you to Alex Strader from the studio for guiding us through the project. Sarah would be proud. We missed you, Sarah.

18/05/2026

At Cyrus, the landscape by feels inseparable from the architecture and surrounds. The garden is quiet yet exacting, a composition of texture, light and movement that slows the body and sharpens the senses.

There is an extraordinary restraint to the work. Every gesture feels deliberate, allowing shadow, stonework, planting and open space to carry equal weight. Rather than competing for attention, the landscape frames atmosphere; it creates calm, anticipation and a powerful sense of place.

It is a masterclass in how landscape architecture can shape not only what we see, but how we feel. What Andrea Cochran and her studio consistently achieve sits far beyond the language of mainstream landscape design. The work resists trend in favour of clarity, precision and emotion. Few studios operate with this level of restraint and confidence. Thank you to Patrick Webb from their office for his insights and taking time from his weekend.

18/05/2026

At the northern end of Napa Valley in Calistoga, we visited a project by , with architecture by .The house and landscape are carefully composed to extend toward the surrounding mountain views, creating a strong dialogue between built form and site. The garden is a refined study in movement and atmosphere, where planting responds to wind, light and seasonality to bring a dynamic quality to the landscape.
Thanks to Dave and Lucas from you guys are legends. Thanks for starring in my clip .dexter …perfect timing!

Address

17 Aylesbury Street
Botany, NSW
2019

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 5:30pm
Thursday 8am - 5:30pm
Friday 8am - 5:30pm

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+61293145333

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