Red Hill

Location: Harrisons Rd, Red Hill Client: Private Scope: Landscape Design & Project Management Completed: 2016 On this extensive Mornington Peninsula Property, Barber has combined traditional formality, sweeping drifts of planting, perennial gardens and recreation facilities, while gracefully moving between styles and form. Levels and other landscape mechanisms were used to easily transition between zones. The Client had begun earthmoving, locating dams and walls without a proper landscape plan, so they needed their own ideas articulated and organised, with new ideas to tie the property together. Barber gave the house surrounds a formal, structured layout and planting theme with parterre gardens and a 25-metre reflection pond. Extensive stonewalls and sawn bluestone paving, juxtaposed with local gravel, articulate and separate the spaces. Avenues of flowering apples and strings of blossoming pears draw you to the vast drifts of mass mono plantings. Accent trees punctuate the subtle gradation of colour, texture and movement. Between the golf greens, lake, croquet lawn, tennis court and lap pool, a playground has been created. All of which are cohesively drawn together within the garden. Photography: Scott Newett