After taking some time to work on our website, the team at Jane Jones Landscapes is delighted to officially share the exciting news that we were recently awarded with the 2015 Landscaping Victoria Industry Award for ‘Plants in the Landscape’ for our East Malvern Project. We were also highly commended for ‘Plant Management and Maintenance’...
Formal Gardens offer open spaces that enhance big properties. They can bring a convenient expansive view into small properties as well. The proliferation of details creates a lavish landscape that stimulates the senses while elaborating an harmonic view. The enjoyment of the landscape and the consciousness of the viewer about the natural surroundings started with...
There's nothing like having a bit of the splendour that flowers and their organic shapes offer inside your home. Flowers have an intimate quality and a tangible impact on our perception - they bring happiness, wellbeing and calm. They enhance our mod and good spirit. Well... if you're looking to have such an effect at...
Being contradictory can be a lot of fun – this is true in gardens, as it is in life. With this in mind, the JJL team had a lot of fun designing and constructing the garden in Davis Street. On the plans the practicality of the layout and structure shine through, but in the flesh,...
It has been a busy start to the year for the team at Jane Jones Landscapes, especially with the opening of our new design studio and shop at 1444 Malvern Road, Glen Iris. Recently, we were given the pleasure of reinvigorating the facade of a beautiful Victorian house in the leafy suburb of Camberwell. A...
Gardens evolve over time. Seasons change and each year brings something new. Having the opportunity to observe and assist these transformations over a period of time is one of the greatest pleasures of our work at Jane Jones Landscapes. This is doubly pronounced when a new owner takes over a JJL garden. JJL had spent...
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” – Dr Seuss For those looking for a touch of fantasy in their garden, succulents are the perfect addition. Pretty, modern, but not too edgy; there are as many adjectives that suit the plants...
From a restricted and tight space, to an effective and functional courtyard; this garden was transformed thanks to a combination of simple design principles, creating the illusion of comfortable depth and space. The challenge of this recent project for Jane Jones Landscapes was how to overcome the problems presented by small gardens, specifically narrow garden...
Somehow September is here already, and with it spring—the most important time of a gardener’s year. It’s a time when a little effort will go a long way, both in the short and long term. We’ve put together a list of JJL’s top tips to prepare your garden for spring. Out with the old There’s...
