Garden Design Guides

Affordable garden design guidance for Australian homes

Gramina Garden Design Guides help you plan a better garden without the cost or complexity of a traditional design process. Each guide gives you clear, practical advice created by a landscape architect, so you can make confident decisions about planting, layout, materials, budget, and how to bring your garden together.

These guides are designed for Australian homes, climates, and everyday garden problems. Whether you are choosing the right plants, working out what your garden might cost, or trying to understand a particular garden style, each guide gives you a simple framework to follow.

Use them before starting a larger garden project, alongside a Gramina Garden Plan, or as a standalone resource when you just need clear direction. They are practical, visual, and easy to use, helping you move from scattered ideas to a garden that feels considered, achievable, and ready to grow.

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Bush Garden Planting Design Guide
$99.00

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Please select Zone for your garden. Your guide with be tailored with plants suited to your climate.

A design guide for creating your dream Australian bush garden.

With a unique Plant List tailored to your home’s climate and location.

Created by Alex Breedon, Landscape Architect and Founder of Gramina, drawing on 15+ years of planting design experience.

This guide helps you choose and arrange plants for a naturalistic garden with texture, movement, and year-round structure.


What’s included in your design guide

  • How to Start — A simple introduction to the bush garden style and the best first steps when planning your planting.

  • Designing with Plants — Rules for spacing, grouping, vertical layering, horizontal layering, and naturalistic arrangement.

  • Go to Plant List — A curated list of reliable bush garden plants selected for your climate region.

  • Plant Long List — An extensive list of plants that work in your climate and are available at most nurseries

  • Planting your Garden — Practical guidance and details on planting, soil preparation, watering, establishment, and long-term plant health.

This is a digital PDF guide, delivered as a download after purchase.

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Low Maintenance Garden Planting Design Guide
$99.00

Selecting Your Climate Region (Zones 1-8)
Please select Zone for your garden. Your guide with be tailored with plants suited to your climate.

A design guide for creating a low maintenance Australian garden.

With a unique Plant List tailored to your home’s climate and location.

Created by Alex Breedon, Landscape Architect and Founder of Gramina, drawing on 15 plus years of planting design experience.

This guide helps you choose and arrange hardy plants for a garden that stays tidy, resilient, and easy to care for over time.


What’s included in your design guide

  • How to Start — a simple introduction to low maintenance planting and the best first steps when planning your garden.

  • Designing with Plants — rules for choosing hardy plants, spacing, grouping, layering, and reducing ongoing upkeep.

  • Go to Plant List — a curated list of reliable low maintenance plants selected for your climate region.

  • Plant Long List — an extensive list of hardy plants that work in your climate and are available at most nurseries.

  • Planting your Garden — practical guidance and details on planting, soil preparation, watering, establishment, mulching, and long-term plant health.

This is a digital PDF guide, delivered as a download after purchase.

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Coastal Garden Planting Design Guide
$99.00

Selecting Your Climate Region (Zones 1-8)
Please select Zone for your garden. Your guide with be tailored with plants suited to your climate.

A design guide for creating your dream Australian coastal garden.

With a unique Plant List tailored to your home’s climate and location.

Created by Alex Breedon, Landscape Architect and Founder of Gramina, drawing on 15+ years of planting design experience.

This guide helps you choose and arrange plants for a coastal garden with texture, toughness, movement, and year-round structure.


What’s included in your design guide

  • How to Start — a simple introduction to the coastal garden style and the best first steps when planning your planting.

  • Designing with Plants — rules for spacing, grouping, wind protection, salt tolerance, layering, and natural coastal arrangement.

  • Go to Plant List — a curated list of reliable coastal garden plants selected for your climate region.

  • Plant Long List — an extensive list of plants that work in your climate and are available at most nurseries.

  • Planting your Garden — practical guidance and details on planting, soil preparation, watering, establishment, exposure, and long-term plant health.

This is a digital PDF guide, delivered as a download after purchase.

BUY COASTAL GARDEN GUIDE