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Creating a stylised Mt Ainslie - Gibson Garden - Photo Essay

 

 

The indoor/outdoor room. Large recycled timber posts from Thor's Hammer support the upper storey. The posts frame views out into the garden.

 

 

The driveway uses a combinaton of railway sleepers and crushed brick, with a sleeper edge.

 

An angular path of railway sleepers links the outdoor room to the vegetable garden and clothes drying area. Native grasses, groundcovers and shrubs spill over the path edges.

 

Informally placed stones create a path up to 'Mt Ainslie'. The path is softened by Correa 'Dusky Bells', Dianella tasmanica and violets.

 

 

The view from 'Mt Ainslie' through the trunks of a mallee eucalypt back into the garden. The small grass area is used as a children's play space and is irrigated by a sub-surface system which collects water from the roof.

 

Mallee eucalypt regrowth in response to pruning.

 

 

The clothesline is constructed from timbers removed from a house in Ainslie.

 

 

 

 

 

The house and garden are successfully integrated, with recycled sash windows offering views into the garden.

All photos Edwina Richardson AILA 2007

 


This website was developed by
and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
(Edwina Richardson AILA)
with assistance from an ACT Government Environment Grant

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