Would you like a sustainable, eco-friendly garden that's low maintenance and provides you with tasty, healthy produce all year round? A garden based on strong design principles that save water and energy, creating a more comfortable space so you and your family can enjoy spending more time outdoors?

Canberra Permaculture Design offers a range of garden advice and design services, based on permaculture ethics, techniques and principles.

Services

Garden consultation
$250 urban
$350 nearby rural

  • 2 hours consultation time with you
  • We discuss your needs, explore your garden's potential
  • Soil pH testing if needed

A good starting point to get a general sense of how permaculture principles could apply to your garden. Maybe you already have some ideas and want to get a second opinion. Don't forget your notepad and get ready to look at your garden in a whole new way!

Garden consultation with report
$450 urban
$550 nearby rural

  • 2 hours consultation time with you
  • We discuss your needs, explore your garden's potential
  • Soil pH testing if needed
  • Follow up report by email with tailored advice and next steps

This service includes a 5-7 page report that covers everything we discuss: site analysis, relevant permaculture concepts, design ideas for your garden. There is a lot of information in a 2 hour consultation - many clients find a report helpful.

Level 1: Preliminary garden design
$690 urban
$890 nearby rural

  • 2 x 2 hour consultations with you
  • Detailed site analysis drawing
  • Colour concept sketch
  • Explanatory report

A good choice if you need ideas and inspiration but are comfortable filling in the details yourself. The accompanying report explains the opportunities and limitations of your site, the rationale for my design ideas and explains key permaculture concepts.

Level 2: Concept garden design
From $1150 (urban)
From $2500 (nearby rural)

Level 3: Detailed garden design
From $1700 (urban only)

Other Services
$70 per hour
  • 6 hours consultation time with you
  • Detailed site analysis drawing
  • Colour concept sketch(es)
  • To-scale concept design (above)
  • Explanatory report

A good choice if you want a scale plan that includes placement of trees, major shrubs, infrastructure (e.g. paths, walls, chicken coops, earthworks) and you're comfortable deciding on where to put smaller plants like herbs and vegetables yourself.
  • 6+ hours consultation time with you
  • Detailed site analysis drawing
  • Preliminary concept sketch
  • To-scale full detailed design (above)
  • Detailed implementation report

If you're the kind of person that likes 'paint by numbers' style instructions, where every single plant is listed on your plan, then this service is for you.
  • Tailored permaculture advice, analysis or other design work as required
  • Liaising directly with your landscaper or project management

If you need specific advice, like options for water harvesting in your garden, advice or designs for non-residential spaces, or a quick sketch on some element, I can tailor services for you.
Here's how much a garden can change in just 18 months:

Picture
Left: our first garden, just after we moved in. Right, view from top of steps, approx 18 months later, the garden is vigorously growing annual vegetables and perennial herbs. Despite the small size, we also included several apple trees, a cherry, an apricot, a fig, an almond and two pears, though they were still small when we took this photo. Dividing the garden into two connected spaces makes it feel more spacious even though there are many more plants than before.