Fern Gully Garden
Location: Victoria (VIC)
Size: 690 sqm
Status: Concept Design Complete
The Challenge
This garden draws on the atmosphere of fern filled gullies and soft forest clearings familiar in the Dandenong foothills. The ambition was not to recreate this landscape literally, but to capture its feeling through planting, movement and space. At the same time, the connection between house and garden was limited by thresholds and level changes. The challenge was to strengthen the relationship between house and landscape while building on a working garden.
A single, uninterrupted surface extends from the house into the garden, dissolving the threshold between inside and out.
The Gramina Response
The central move is a seamless inside outside connection. The kitchen, living and dining level aligns exactly with a new deck so movement from house to garden is uninterrupted. From here the garden opens into a generous lawn sized for gatherings and everyday use. Around the perimeter, renewed planting focuses on resilient, habitat rich species.
House and garden open into one continuous space with fully openable doors for inside outside connection.
A clear, calm arrival with space for two cars and carport.
The Garden Now
The garden reads as a continuous landscape flowing from inside the home to the back boundary. Deck, lawn and planting feel like one connected space rather than separate zones. Informal paths and shaded clearings create quieter moments within the garden. The result is a calm, generous garden that feels both lived in and quietly wild.
Concept Plan - A new deck, lawn and garden beyond connects to the existing home.
A small gravel clearing tucked into the ferns.
Shaded edges of the garden planted with ferns and shade loving plants.