The elegant union of ornamental and productive.
This amazing urban block in Kew is well on its way to be fully transformed. We have been working with our very enthusiastic and determined clients to fine tune a great design for their newly bought property: . . The design includes: A huge productive garden at the front, surrounded by a mini food forest
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With our two locally sourced assistants we started building a rain fed pond by digging a nice big hole. The perspectives are deceiving, these two little workers dug a massive hole, close to 500mm deep by 1.5m in diameter. The PVC pipe in the left hand bottom corner is where the pond will
Carrots are everyone’s favourite to harvest… But without a doubt, they are not everyone’s favourite to grow! To start with, the seeds are minute, very light and once sown do not handle drying out. And if they do sprout, then come the weeds! The enthusiast gardener is often pictured tediously weeding clean
As usually on most second week ends, our little Carlton top bar hive was opened, checked for health and vigour and robbed of a portion of its content… Just enough to keep us going to another couple of weeks, but always leaving the bees plenty to eat! Top car hives are brilliant for small backyards.
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This East-Brunswick front garden is sharing its crop with the neighbourhood. Kids stop by after school and neighbours cue for a snack! We planted this row of strawberries in winter 2011, in their first summer the plants have already given buckets of sweet sweet goodness. And it is only a beginning. The plants are
These pictures have been taken in the mists of summer at a community garden ran by Cultivating Community in North Melbourne. . Libertas Garden is in the process of quoting on the restoration of a near by community garden, also ran by Cultivating Community. . The avid gardener can notice a considerable difference in style
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A meeting with the Melbourne City Rooftop Honey crew at the Juddy Roller yesterday was a good opportunity for a bit of honey sampling. These honeys have been harvested from hive all over Melbourne, from the CBD to Brunswick. What a treat!
This is by far our favourite cafe in Melbourne. The Juddy Roller (located on Chapel st Fitzroy, just off Johnston st) is a prime example of unorthodox use of space, and a brilliant example of how a greener city is just a step away. The street art is changed almost weekly, and the guerrilla
When we include bananas on our designs for properties in Melbourne, we invariably get this look from our clients… this look that says; I’m incredulous, but I would like to believe! . Well my friends, believe! . Yuuum yum! These Brunswick bananas, will make for a proud gardener. If the possums don’t get to them
Remember our over wintered tomato plant? ( https://libertasgardens.com.au/winter-tomatoes-or-the-joy-inner-city-life/ ) Well after a break of a couple of months, it has started producing again! Our first ripe tomato… in the first week of November! Will this be a new variety? We are planning to keep this fabulous genetic alive by keeping seeds and cross fertilising