GARDEN CHATS
Not everyone wants, or needs, a full-blown landscape design package.
Sometimes you just want a nudge in the right direction, someone to walk the site with you, answer your questions, and sketch out a plan that makes sense for your life and the land you inhabit. This is what Garden Chats are for.
At SBLA Studio, we believe that access to good design thinking shouldn’t be reserved for people with big budgets or large properties, it should be accessible to all. Whether you’ve got a small courtyard, a sprawling block, an old farm, or just an idea that you want to try and ground, there’s always an opportunity to make things thrive.
We see gardens not as isolated patches, but parts of a wider living system. Once you notice your place as interconnected with its unique soil, geology, climate, local waterways, birds, animals, and pollinators, a lot of exciting possibilities open up
garden chat offerings
A Garden Chat
A Garden Chat is a one-hour consultation session with SBLA Studio focused on helping you with your garden. Within the session we explore ideas, possibilities, plants, soil, water, and everything relevant to your garden. You can ask questions, test out ideas or just talk things through. Where it’s useful, we can create a simple sketch during the session that you can take away and use to guide your garden’s next steps.
Further Engagement — Garden Concept Plans, Drawings, Maps and more…
A Garden Chat may be all you need to set you on the path to creating a garden you love. But if you decide you would like to engage us further, we can discuss moving forward with more detailed planning or design services, such as a concept design or planting plan.
If you are interested in either of these offerings and would like to know what the fees are, or ask more questions, fill in the contact form below or send us an email at hello@sbla.net.au
What you might get from a Garden Chat:
Help reading the land - understanding water, soils, and the systems that shape your place (or once did). We use tools like GIS mapping alongside careful site and context observation to show you what’s possible.
A Planting plan - tailored to your site, including endemic species and plants that will thrive and help with sourcing them from the right places.
Sketched landscape concepts - clear sketches and plans you can tackle yourself, or hand over to a contractor when you’re ready.
A habitat garden - spaces that welcome birds, insects, and other creatures back into daily life, tailored to the specific biodiversity of your area.
A healing garden - designed for reflection, rest, and wellbeing.
A garden for food - productive spaces that bring fresh harvests into your kitchen.
Living systems - existing natural systems can be understood and used to provide tailored off-grid functions, such as rainwater harvest, grey/blackwater systems, green walls/roofs, drainage/irrigation and composting.
The beginning of a more detailed and conventional landscape design process - If the project calls for it, this process offers a starting place to move into a more detailed design services approach.
