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Numurkah primary School Bush Tucker Garden

WebsPlus LL Admin — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 03:38:49 +0000

The brief

To create a multi purpose Indigenous bush tucker garden.

How we met the brief

A well crafted design that used symbols from indigenous art to create a journey through the garden. Concentric circles represented campsite and fire pit, featuring a water hole connected by pathways through country. Log seating was installed around the edges of both circles to allow for a class sized group and also a smaller group with a story chair. This allows the space to be used as an outdoor classroom and the fire pit circle also doubles as a sandpit. The sweeping mounded garden beds were filled with indigenous food, fibre and medicine plants. Edible Eden supplied information signs for each grouping of plants providing educational valve and interest in the garden. Painted totem poles featuring indigenous designs and animals are also a focal point in the garden, along with a number of significant established native trees that frame the space and roof the space with afternoon shade.

Client feedback

The children have been enjoying the garden as both a classroom and during play times. It has been used with local indigenous people conducting a smoking ceremony, art activities, and talking about aboriginal culture. The botanical signs on the plants have engaged the children’s curiosity about their diverse uses. They also really enjoy building with bark, sticks and scented plants in the sandpit and creates a sense of adventure as they follow the curving pathways.

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Lawn retreat garden – Cobram Kindergarten

WebsPlus LL Admin — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 01:58:35 +0000

Designed and constructed for the Cobram kindergarten.

The brief

Provide a soft natural surface for children to play and explore in a safe environment.

How we met the brief

The existing area was opened up to provide clear sight lines and opportunity for play and social gathering. The design promotes connection and also engages children with a generous open natural lawn and builds upon the existing shade canopies that provide the cooling of shade required for the hot summer days. A natural curvaceous rock river bed was also included in the design featuring endemic grass plants that provided a natural curious bush-style space for children to explore.

Client feedback

The green space has been very popular among the kids wanting to play sports and roam around in groups on the soft buffalo lawn. The rock river bed has also been great for kids who enjoy running through the rock pebbles and looking for lizards

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Haven Children’s Garden

WebsPlus LL Admin — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 04:23:10 +0000

Date: June 2021

Family Haven Mooroopna – Lighthouse Project (gslp.com.au)

Family Haven located in Mooroopna provides a safe space where parents and carers and their children are welcome with no referral or appointment.

The brief

The most important element requested for the Haven Garden was to create a safe play environment for a range of activities that offered soft open surfaces to explore that created a sense of fun and play.

How we met the brief

The garden design created a soft and open mobility for active and curious children. Firstly with a generous circular lawn and sandpits. The children’s garden featured a textured gravel circular pathways that offered a continuous circuit to explore the open space that was filled with sensory plants that offered children texture, colour and aromatic characteristics for children to explore and interact with while engaging with the space

Client feedback

The garden has offered families and their children a save and protected space for all of there needs throughout the changing seasons. The garden layout and sensory plants engages play, laughter and interest. We are very happy with the garden and all it offers to the families that visit with there children.

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