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Coorabin Estate, Brown Hill 2017

Ballarat Groundworks • 27 May 2020
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A comprehensive example of ‘landscaping with the works’! We worked with the clients to design both front and back yards on a very sloping and challenging block in Coorabin Estate, Brown Hill. An extensive range of landscaping elements were incorporated to create a stunning, relaxing, entertainers dream.

The Project Involved the Following:

  • Backyard
  • Design
  • Excavation of site.
  • Middle stone wall using large basalt boulders
  • Amphitheatre stone wall and high side step down wall using basalt stone mortared down on concrete footing
  • ‘Floating’ feature Merbau seat
  • 300mm steel walls
  • Steel edge paths with stone risers and compacted topping
  • Soil and mulch to all garden beds
  • Fully automatic irrigation system to lawn areas and garden beds
  • Tall fescue turf to lower area and top up lawn area
  • Supply and install plants as per design
  • Provide extension of concrete driveway
  • New fence around driveway extension using 1500mm high tubular pool fence
  • Veggie patch area using compacted topping ready for raised veggie boxes
  • Pergola area using 150mm x 150mm cypress posts and large beams overhead with no solid roof structure
  • Concrete slab with charcoal oxide under pergola area
  • Crazy pave fire pit area.
  • Front Yard
  • Excavation of site including removal of old retaining walls. 
  • Staircase to front door using 140mm merbau timber
  • Timber wall from rock wall to house and clad with 140mm merbau
  • Steel edge along nature strip
  • Supply and install plants as per design
  • Soil and decorative pebble to garden beds
  • Shade frame with steel laser cut roof
  • Concrete bluestone pavers in lower section
  • Irrigation system to garden beds and sprays on nature strips
  • Re establish front nature strip with soil and seed
There is a playground in the middle of a park with a tree in the background.
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primary school
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landscape
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