Surry Hills Courtyard
A four-by-five-metre rear courtyard for a renovated worker's cottage — a single tree, a single bench, a single planting story.
A four-by-five-metre rear courtyard for a renovated worker's cottage — a single tree, a single bench, a single planting story.
The client was firm: no maintenance, no lawn, no fuss, but a garden — not a paved yard with pots. The constraint sharpened every decision.
We specified one tree (a multi-stem ironbark, craned in over the roof line), one bench (a single five-metre slab of recycled hardwood on a steel frame), and one repeated ground-cover species across the entire floor. The boundary walls are clad in a climbing fig that will fully cover the brickwork within four years.
The smallest gardens are often the hardest. Restraint matters more here than anywhere else, because every element is held at conversation distance.
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