Have a plan. That’s the first advice landscape designer Jason King of Kings Gardens & Pools gives clients when creating their own green Edens. “A master plan will ensure the spaces connect and co-exist in all seasons and at all times of the day,” he says.
But ask for a plan of Jason’s own half-hectare garden on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula and he replies, there isn’t one. It’s a fanciful ramble, the lovingly spontaneous result of both trial and error and his own fertile imagination. “We were too impatient and planted out the garden, section by section, to find out what thrives and fails,”