Beautiful Accessible Gardens

Garden and Landscape Design for Melbourne and surrounding areas.

Unique gardens to meet your individual needs, tastes and budget.

Personalised service.

No job too small.

Kath Baggaley also has Occupational Therapy qualifications and provides these additional specialist services:

  • Therapeutic garden design

  • Sensory garden design

  • Mobility garden design

  • Gardens for older people

  • Gardens for people with a disability


 
Testimonials
Wright Family, Keysborough

If you are looking for a spectacular garden which will impress, Kath is the designer for you. She has an eye for detail, creativity and absolutely met all of our landscape needs.

We can highly recommend Kath Baggaley Garden Design.

Andrea Proctor, Lecturer in Landscape Design, University of Melbourne Burnley Campus

Kath has a creative and thoughtful approach to design. She really listens and responds to her clients, and has a strong understanding of the practical design requirements of complex landscapes.

Paula – Wattle Park, Victoria

Kath listened closely to my needs. Her knowledge of plants and passion for creating unique, beautiful gardens made the design process so easy and enjoyable.

My new garden is a haven of birdlife, colour and beauty that brings me joy and peace.

 

Another sort of garden. Garden design in a fish tank can be challenging but reversing the usual cycle of the filtration system so that freshly filtered, oxygenated water is pushed out and up through the substrate (rather than old water being sucked d
First summer of this brand new garden in Keysborough, Melbourne - third shot shows it pre planting and before the finials and paint were applied to the clusters of posts which playfully demarcate the boundary. Still some filling out to do but it sho
Thank you to @homebeautiful and @marniehawson photography for the beautiful treatment of my garden in the April edition of Home Beautiful Magazine - out now. I’m so thrilled with the results. #gardendesignmelbourne #inmygarden #homebeautiful
Volunteering for #globalgardensofpeace yesterday at the wonderful Brookdale Farm - the garden of John and Michelle Raynor (@johnprayner) and part of #opengardensvictoria The garden is a study in expectation and surprise….compression and relea
After (December 2021) and before (April 2016 - just after planting). The soil in these beds was prepared with stacks of organic matter and the Jacaranda was purchased as an advanced tree (a high quality specimen with no root girdling). This is one t
Native pods and fruits on my morning walk today - such intricate beauty and variation. These include: The tangled pods with their seeds like red eyes of Acacia melanoxylon The deep rusty weeping clusters of Acacia dealbata The slender brown fingers o
Party dresses in the garden for yesterday’s freedom day in Melbourne Couldn’t resist showing the bearded irises again - this time in full glory - both early and mid season varieties in bloom - only late season yet to come. #springinmelbou
Lovely Bulbine Lilies (Bulbine bulbous) popping their cheerful spikes up along Scotchman’s Creek today. A little spark of joy for my morning walk. These tough little guys flower through spring, summer and autumn with spikes up to 80cm, tolerate
First Tall Bearded Iris of the season! Simply stunning! The delicate beauty of the flowers belies the frost, heat and dry tolerance of these show stoppers. All they need is good drainage and full sun and to be planted with their rhizomes on or near t
Ephemeral Tamarix (this is likely T. tetranda) - show stoppingly gorgeous for a couple of weeks at this time of year. As its beauty is so fleeting it would usually be part of a large garden where other plants could take over when it is no longer star
Gorgeous Weigela florida - lovely arching canes smothered in pink trumpets at this time of year. 3m high x 2m wide in ideal conditions - sheltered and protected from hot afternoon sun and wind. Deciduous - gold and bronze autumn colour. Tolerant of a
Some projects are a slow burn - I started growing this Wisteria from a seedling when I was about 16 after seeing one trained like this in the window of the Jade Tree restaurant in South Yarra and falling in love. It took about 10 years to get the bra