Joel Black is an experienced landscape designer who combines horticultural knowledge and practical design expertise to create well-planned gardens for Canberra homes.
With hot summers, hard winter frosts, challenging clay soils and difficult new-build sites, successful gardens here rely on informed, knowledgeable advice. That is why consultations sit at the core of Canberra Horticulture & Garden Design – because a garden that looks good on paper but fails to thrive in reality is not well designed at all.
Supporting every stage of a garden’s life, from onsite consultations and plant selection through to landscaping advice and design, identifying pests and diseases and long-term plant health, Joel provides clear, practical guidance for both new and existing gardens.
Thoughtful landscape design can completely transform the way you use and enjoy your outdoor space. Joel provides practical garden design services across Canberra, from detailed concept plans and planting advice through to larger landscape redesigns tailored to your home, lifestyle and Canberra’s unique climate.
Joel provided us with a full written brief of our landscaping plans, working with our vision & building upon it. He gave us a 3D model of our front and backyard plans after doing another consultation. He visited our yard twice during this process and reflected our ideas well, while also using his knowledge of horticulture and permaculture to create a great design.
We had just moved into a new property with large gardens and didn’t know where to start. Joel quickly identified the main themes and gave us practical advice on some immediate improvements, including garden features and plants to either keep, remove or add. He followed up with a concept plan that gave us some really good ideas that will guide our activities for the next few months. We are very grateful for his advice.”
We asked Joel to give us some advice on how to revive our townhouse garden. Generous with his time and patient in his approach, Joel took us through how we could improve or replace our current plantings to create lusher and more pleasant courtyard and balcony gardens. That advice has paid dividends.
Joel provided very knowledgeable and helpful advice on improving my garden. Happy to recommend.”
We’d love to chat about the plans for your garden design, answer questions, provide pricing or arrange a time to visit your site.
