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Testimonials

“SEED landscapes have proven to us the benefits of having a good landscape designer on your side when designing buildings.  We have enjoyed the interaction with Paul during the design process, as his thoughts have really helped us all to create better indoor/outdoor relationships with our buildings.”

“His ability to design the ‘whole environment’, including pools, interplays with our desire to bring all the property together.  The drawings that emerge from seed landscapes are beautifully wrought and are easily inserted into our revit documentation.”

Peter Latemore
Principal, Latemore Design

  • m 59 Chermside St, Grange QLD 4051
  • p 07 33569051
  • e peter@latemoredesign.com.au
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“My team and I at AAD Designs have been utilising the design services of SEED Landscapes for nearly a year.  My staff and I have always found Paul and his team to be professional in all of their interactions with us.
We have found SEED’s design skills with commercial landscape requirements, satisfy our clients’ needs.  SEED does this with their prompt delivery of services and their experience with local government codes.
Each project is treated uniquely and the design integrates the built environment with the landscape.  SEED is innovative and practical, standards that we have come to expect from them.”

Albert Daher
Principle, AAD Design

  • m 173 Given Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064
  • p 07 3368 2211
  • e albertdaher@aaddesigns.com.au
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A good landscape design will make your building look great

Our landscape designs complement and enhance the building design, rather than try to create something new and different. Where possible, we work with the building materials and style to create a landscape that works with the house. This helps draw the landscape to the building and vies versa, creating a harmonious relationship throughout the property.

A good design will increase the usable space of the home

A landscape should be an extension of the house, increasing usable and robust spaces (or rooms) outdoors. It is more than just plant knowledge, using simular spatial design theories to give clients more than something pleasant to out look at. The outdoor area can be broken into various spaces or zones. Semi-public space, open play space or recreation space, entry foyer, outdoor living and entertaining space, work space and intimate spaces. These ‘rooms’ are affected by seasons, position of sun/shade, weather, current microclimates, neighbouring and public elements, privacy issues, wind issues, slopes and terracing, time concerning plant growth and coverage, local wildlife and client usage to name a few.

Clients like the ‘one stop shop’

By introducing our design skills, a complete building package is presented to the client. A strong relationship is created with the client by including the outdoor design process within the building design process. After the construction of the build/extension, the site looks battered and bruised. To continue with the construction, the client sees a seamless transformation of the site as a whole.

Our designs increase your scope of work

Within the landscape design, we like to create other structural elements to complement the building, thus drawing the two entities together. Structural design is outside of our scope of works, both legally and professionally. By being involved in the design process from the start, we can make suggestions (like covered linking boardwalks, poolside patios, free standing decking pods or random structural features) within the landscape that will increase your overall contract with the client while increasing the usage of the property.

Environmentally friendly to reduce the constructions carbon footprint

For those who are environmentally responsive to the building process, proper landscape planning will offset more construction than that of a lesser design. Trees, shrubs and even turf obviously aid to reduce the carbon footprint of the build as a whole, and with the use of recycled and ‘green’ materials and construction processes, a greater outcome is achieved.

Save your client money

Your client could be like so many who watch Jamie Durie on the TV, and are lead to believe that landscape architecture is something everyone can do. We aim to help clients avoid common and costly mistakes by choosing correct material selection, appropriate vegetative solutions and selection and general increased usage of their property as a whole. Street appeal is paramount as this is the first visual relation with the building, and needs to complement the building and increase the overall aesthetics of the home while expressing the client’s personality.