The practice
Curated threshold plantings — in Earth and vessel — for homes and boutique retreats on the Lower Sunshine Coast.
Two materials
We read the entrance, then build it from two materials: planted beds where there is open ground to work with, and containers where there isn’t. Most thresholds want both, and getting the balance right is the design.
Living ground at the door.
In-ground beds along the arrival path and against the house. Textural, multi-purpose perennials chosen for coastal wind, coastal rain, and the particular light your entrance actually gets — planted for long-season interest rather than one good month.
Structure where the ground won’t give.
Architectural containers, sourced to suit the building and sited where paving, roots, or drainage rule out a bed. Anchored by hardy, four-season plantings — designed to stand quietly on their own, with the option to schedule seasonal botanical refreshes as the coastal year shifts.
The process
Tell us about the entrance — where it is, who arrives there, what bothers you about it now. Photographs of the approach help enormously.
A paid on-site assessment. We read the light, the drainage, the exposure, and the way people actually move toward the door. This is discovery, not design — the design comes later, once you have decided to go ahead.
Booked and invoiced on its own, so you’re free to sit with the plan — for a week or for a season — before committing to anything further.
$195
flat fee · one visit · CAD
If a bed needs extensive clearing first — established invasives, that sort of thing — we’ll say so and either quote it separately or point you to a local crew better suited to the job.
A planting plan and a vessel selection made for your exact conditions. You see and approve it before a single plant or pot is bought.
Prepped and planted. Quietly. Nothing dragged out across weeks, nothing left half-finished in front of an arriving guest.
An optional recurring service, offered only to thresholds we’ve installed. We return as the coastal light shifts — tucking in fresh spring growth, rich autumn textures, or fragrant evergreen structure. Pruned, refreshed, and reset so the entrance looks deliberate in every season, without you ever having to lift a hand.
The walk-through is the one fixed fee. Design, sourcing, and installation are quoted after it, because that is the point at which we know the size of the space, its exposure, and how much work it actually wants. Nothing is purchased before you have that quote in writing.
Boundaries
A narrow practice is the point. It’s what lets a single visit be careful rather than fast.
What we tend
What we don’t
Where we work
A short territory means short drives, which means a visit can be unhurried and a reset can happen on the week it’s needed rather than the month.
Yes — tell us what you have in mind and we’ll talk it through. Plants you love, plants you can’t stand, a colour you keep coming back to: all of it is useful.
That said, the best results come from letting the space lead. Light, drainage, exposure, and what already grows nearby narrow the list far more than a style brief does, and this is where the horticulture earns its keep. What greets a guest matters less as a particular colour than as a feeling — that the space is intentional and cared for — and that reads most clearly when the plants are genuinely thriving and sit comfortably in their surroundings.
After the walk-through you’ll get an initial palette, or a themed planting or two, shaped around what you want the arrival to feel like.
The doorstep or landing, the immediate arrival path leading to it, and the beds and containers within sight of someone standing at the door. In practice that’s usually a stretch of ground between about six and thirty feet across.
If you can see it while you’re finding your keys, it’s likely in scope.
For hosts and property managers, it generally sits in the same column as cleaning, linens, photography, and listing fees — a cost of presenting the property well, rather than a personal garden purchase.
We invoice accordingly, and we’re glad to itemize the walk-through, the installation, and the reset visits separately if that makes your books tidier. How it’s ultimately claimed is a question for your accountant.
As little or as much as you want. Our threshold plantings are built from resilient coastal species that hold their composure on their own, but any planting still asks for regular tending and seasonal edits.
For complete peace of mind: put your entrance on our recurring maintenance schedule. We handle the watering, feeding, and pruning. If a plant struggles, we diagnose it, then source and install a replacement during our rounds.
If you’d rather do it yourself: your main job is consistent watering through dry spells while plants establish. From there, book us for seasonal resets to prune, refresh the soil, and edit the composition whenever the space needs a lift.
Yes, and it’s common. Most clients keep their existing crew for the lawn and the lot while we take the entrance only.
We’ll work out the boundary case by case, property by property, so both sides know exactly where one scope ends and the other begins. A short conversation before the first visit is usually all it takes.
The one thing worth agreeing on early is that the entry beds and containers are ours to tend — particularly where blowers are concerned.
Begin
Where it is, who arrives there, and what bothers you about it now. Photographs of the approach help more than anything. We’ll reply with next steps and a time for the walk-through.