Garden Design Blog
Read through articles about garden design and keep up with the news and recent happenings at Porter Designs.
Plants For Spring Flowers
Spring flowering plants that won't die after blooming!Spring has arrived and so have the flowers! Instead of filling your garden with flowering annuals why not plant beautiful flowers that are displayed on evergreen foliage. This means that when your plants finish...
Colour By Design
This post first appeared in Moreton Life Magazine - The Courier Mail Author: Kylie Knight, Quest Newspapers With spring just around the corner, the conditions are ideal for new plants to settle in and it’s not yet too hot for some hard yakka, if you’re keen to get...
How do You Design A Garden?
Best 5 tips for your garden Typically when our clients first engage us to design their garden they are embarrassed by their existing garden when they walk us through it! Time and time again we see common mistakes that people do when they design their garden. We have...
Balcony Gardens For The Frustrated Gardener
Have you ever been in doubt as to what to grow on your balcony? The good news is there are many plants you can grow on your balcony! They need to be site responsive though – suitable for how much sun, shade and wind your balcony gets. For watering they need to fit...
Our Landscape Design Made The Papers!
Our recent collaborative project with Zen Landscaping Queensland - Dirranbandi Rail and River precinct has made the local papers! The Dirranbandi Arts Council loved our landscape master plan, they have now actively started seeking funding and they are not being shy...
Road Trip To Dirranbandi
This month we took a trip to outback Queensland with Zen Landscaping Queensland to a town called Dirranbandi! Our role is to design the parkland in the heart of town, that will rejuvenate the town for the locals with the secondary outcome to encourage tourists to stay...