Sunday turned Monday inspiration - gardening

It's been a really busy week on the outside this week.  Jeff (aka Santa after his amazing achievement) delivered lawn to our backyard just in time for Christmas.  Hooray and an enormous thank you to both Jeff and hubby!!  They worked tirelessly and as a huge bonus put in a few garden beds.  I'm really excited and am now thinking about the soft landscaping (as I've been stock piling nursery gift vouchers :).

I have a couple of favourite landscape designers, whom continuously inspire me.  They are Rolling Stone (Dean Herald) and Paul Bangay.  Both are Australian designers and although they are different in many respects they are quite similar at the same time.  I love the types of plants and colours they use and their seemingly effortless (but actually precise) placement.

I'm thinking with our style of house we'll need something more formal (Paul Bangay inspired) in the front yard and then something more contemporary (Rolling Stone inspired) in the back.

Here's one of Paul Bangay inspiring images and one of his books

And an amazing Rolling Stone image from the Chelsea Garden Show in 2006 and some of his beautiful Japanese influenced residential work.