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
How we structure our garden chats
Offering 1: Garden Chat Only
1 hour of consultation and a follow up document that gives a summary of the chat
Offering 2: Garden Chat and Garden Sketch
1 hour of consultation + follow-up meeting with garden sketch
Offering 3: Garden Chat, Garden Sketch and Planting list
1 hour of consultation + follow-up meeting with garden sketch and planting list
Pick and Mix Offering
Choose what you want to add to the consult (as many or as little as you want)
+ water systems
+ tips and tricks guidelines
+ reading the land
+ material reuse
Once we have received your garden information, we can help you to determine which of these offerings are most suitable and price accordingly.
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.
Get in touch
Get in touch and we will send you a Garden Chats questionnaire to get us started and to determine which offering will suit your garden best.
