Bondi Coast House
A pocket-sized coastal garden behind a modernist house — three planted bands across a small rear yard, all selected to thrive in salt wind.
A pocket-sized coastal garden behind a modernist house — three planted bands across a small rear yard, all selected to thrive in salt wind.
Eighty square metres of garden, ten metres from the ocean, with a westerly aspect that takes the brunt of the afternoon sea breeze. The brief was a garden that didn't look battered by the conditions it lives in.
We banded the rear yard into three planted strips: a low silver-grey grass meadow against the rear fence, a mid-band of low coastal shrubs, and a clipped front edge that frames the lawn. A single mature norfolk pine sits off-centre as the only vertical element.
The garden has now been through three summers without any visible salt damage — the planting was screened in advance with the help of a propagator who only grows for coastal sites.
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