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BULB Landscape Design Melbourne landscape architecture for gardens and pools that do more than look good. Residential & commercial. Built from the ground up 🌱

There's a moment every year when the garden decides winter is truly over - not when the calendar says so, but when somet...
25/09/2026

There's a moment every year when the garden decides winter is truly over - not when the calendar says so, but when something finally proves it.

The tulips know it best. Bold colour after months of bare beds, opening all at once like they've been waiting for permission. They don't linger long. A few short weeks, and then they're gone again until next year which is exactly what makes them matter.

We plant for that moment on purpose - the brief, unmistakable signal that spring isn't coming. It's here.

BULB Landscape Design

18/09/2026

We wanted it to feel less like a website and more like an entrance -
a first look at how we think, before you ever step into a garden of ours.

Step inside and wander through our website the way you'd wander through a garden - our projects, our process, everything we've been quietly growing.

Link in bio. Drop us a line and say hello!

Marketing strategy and website by .melbourne

A website and a garden, I've realised, aren't so different. Both are just layers, quietly doing their work - mine or nat...
11/09/2026

A website and a garden, I've realised, aren't so different.
Both are just layers, quietly doing their work - mine or nature's, it doesn't much matter which.

Swipe through to see how ours came together.
The new site is live now - link in bio.

Can a city garden feel quiet?I didn't think so either, until I stopped trying to block the city out and started listenin...
04/09/2026

Can a city garden feel quiet?
I didn't think so either, until I stopped trying to block the city out and started listening to what was already there.

This one started with what existed - trees that had earned their place long before we arrived, offering shade and shape no new planting could fake. Everything else, I designed to sit quietly around them.

The pool sits behind arched steel doorways that blur where the house ends and the garden begins - I still think about how that threshold feels, walking through it.

The spa and cold plunge are tucked behind planting, not walls, because I've never believed quiet needs to look like a fence. The beds curve on purpose, softening every hard edge they touch.

And the lawn is real, usable space - I pulled the fence back rather than let the pool take the whole yard, because a family needs somewhere to run, not just somewhere to swim.

Designed by BULB.

A garden isn't one layer. It's three, quietly working together.Structure gives it height, the trees and shrubs that catc...
28/08/2026

A garden isn't one layer. It's three, quietly working together.

Structure gives it height, the trees and shrubs that catch the light first. Beneath that, the mid-layer moves with the wind, softening what the structure holds up. And low to the ground, the smallest planting does the quiet work of holding it all together.

Most people notice the tallest thing first. I've learned to notice what's underneath.

Swipe through to see how the layers come together.

A garden isn't one layer. It's three, quietly working together.Structure gives it height - the trees and shrubs that cat...
21/08/2026

A garden isn't one layer. It's three, quietly working together.
Structure gives it height - the trees and shrubs that catch the light first. Beneath that, the mid-layer moves with the wind, softening what the structure holds up. And low to the ground, the smallest planting does the quiet work of holding it all together.

Most people notice the tallest thing first.
I've learned to notice what's underneath.

Swipe through to see how the layers come together.
Design & build:

A garden isn't built in a weekend. It's built the way anything worth having is, slowly, in decisions that don't announce...
14/08/2026

A garden isn't built in a weekend. It's built the way anything worth having is, slowly, in decisions that don't announce themselves.

I've learned a few things along the way. Not rules. More like things the ground has quietly taught us.

Start with what's already there. Work with the slope, not against it. Give plants room to become themselves, in their own time.

Swipe through for my top landscaping tips I've picked up over 22 years in the industry.

The bushland was already there. We just learned to listen to it.This is The Woodland Retreat, in Warrandyte.Late light f...
07/08/2026

The bushland was already there. We just learned to listen to it.
This is The Woodland Retreat, in Warrandyte.

Late light falls through the canopy the way it always has, landing on water before anything else. Below, a dry stone creek moves the eye downhill, the way water would if there were any.
Nothing here competes with what already existed. It settles into it, and asks to be discovered slowly, not all at once.

The result feels calm. Grounded. Like it always belonged - a space shaped alongside .buildingdesign, brought to life by
BULB Landscape Design.

10/07/2026

They said stone was cold. That it was hard and unforgiving. That it belonged in old buildings, not in the spaces where you live and breathe and gather.

But the right stone, laid with intention, does something unexpected. It warms under the afternoon sun. It holds the memory of rain. It ages in a way that makes it feel more considered with every season that passes over it.

Limestone is one of our favourite materials to work with - and there's a reason it ends up in so many of our most considered projects.

This is what stone looks like when it's chosen to align within the natural environment.

Get in touch to chat about your landscape project today.
2 x winner - SPASA Australia’s Best Designer 2025 & 2024.

BULB Landscape Design

Somewhere between the yard you have and the space you've always imagined, there's a process worth trusting.It starts wit...
03/07/2026

Somewhere between the yard you have and the space you've always imagined, there's a process worth trusting.

It starts with a conversation about what the space could be, what you need from it and what's already there worth keeping. It moves through site visits and concept designs and the quiet work of getting every detail resolved before anything is built.

And it ends with a finished garden that feels less like something that was designed and more like something that was always meant to be there.

This is how we work. Carefully, intentionally and with your vision at the centre of every decision.

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