Pruning

Alongside landscaping I offer specialised pruning services, including; Fruit tree pruning, both summer and winter; Espalier, Fan, and Cordon establishment and maintenance; Vines and Climbers; and Amenity Tree pruning and removal.

I am a qualified Horticulturalist and Arborist.

 An apple one year after a severe regenerative prune

A kiwi trellis one year after planting

 Regenerative pruning on flattened apple trees.

Elsternwick 2010-2012

This Job was started back in 2010 and was completed in conjuncion with Rafael Schouten.

We started with the back yard, giving it a complete overhaul, replacing the tired lawn with bluestone stepping stones, a pond and some vege growing beds.

One year on...

The next phase was to redo the side of the house, which looked like this...

The brief was to create a Persian Style rain water harvesting garden.

The pond collects water off the roof which then passes through and out into mulch basins in the garden. More water was saved with the installation of 12,000lts of water tanks and a laundry to landscape grey water system.

We used recycled bricks which were pulled up from the renovations out the back. We also were able to use some of the extremely sandy soil from the pond dig out to make mortar for the paving!

Brunswick 2011

This Job began with a design consultation process from which two concept designs were generated. It was completed in conjunction with Lucas Guilbert.

Both included similar elements but rearranged in different configurations. In the end the client decided they wanted a combination of the two concepts, namely the front yard from concept A and the back yard from concept B. Furthermore they requested a pond, which became a main feature of the front yard.


Implementation began with clearing the old garden garden and paths. Then building the pond, which is rain filled via a first flush like system from a downpipe and overflows to a basin of rocks, watering the landscape.

We then added paths, which along with the pond edge were constructed out of Mudstone. We then sheet mulched the front and back, using large sheets of cardboard and tree loppers mulch.

The Client had already purchased some large fruit boxes which we turned into wicking garden beds.

Then we added lawn and fruit trees to the landscape. The fruit trees are watered using a Laundry to Landscape style grey water system and the pictured tropical area is additionally watered with passive rainwater harvesting off the roof.

This is the garden one year on... in the background you can see the chicken run.

The front yard establishing...