Landscape design for the bayside and Redlands.
Salt air, sea breezes and famously red soil: garden design that thrives on Moreton Bay, from Lota to Redland Bay.
Gardens by Moreton Bay live under different rules. The breeze that makes summer bearable also carries salt; the afternoon storms roll in off the water; and across the Redlands ridges you meet that famous deep red krasnozem, volcanic country that grew the district's market gardens and strawberry farms for generations. It isn't the whole story, though: the same region runs to sandy foreshore pockets, alluvial flats and heavier reactive clays, so what's under your particular block is worth checking rather than assuming.
Attn: Landscapes is a design-only studio led by Shannon Trevisiol, a qualified landscape designer with more than ten years across residential gardens and parks. We design coastal conditions in from the start (species that hold their colour in salt wind, structures that handle weather off the bay), then hand you drawings any good contractor can price and build from.
Designing for salt, breeze and red soil
Coastal planting is a filter, not a limitation. Banksias, westringias, casuarinas and lomandras take the front line; softer subtropical layers shelter behind them. Get the sequence right and a bayside garden looks lush year-round. Get it wrong and the salt tells you within a season. Our coastal garden design page goes deeper on how we plant by the water.
Where you've got it, that red Redlands krasnozem is a quiet advantage: free-draining, fertile and forgiving, and it rewards proper soil preparation with a wider plant palette than most of Brisbane gets away with. But it isn't the whole region, so we read the ground on your block rather than assume it: sandier pockets sit near the water, and the low-lying streets run to heavier, reactive clay that wants a different approach again.
Photo: Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Family blocks, canal frontage and acreage pockets
The region mixes housing like nowhere else in greater Brisbane. Older bayside cottages sit near the water at the northern end; generous brick family blocks fill the middle decades; canal-front homes at Raby Bay put the garden between the house and the water; and the newest estates arrive as blank canvases wanting structure and shade.
Inland, Chandler and Gumdale hold some of Brisbane's best acreage, paddock-sized blocks where the design job is masterplanning: which zones to build now, what to plant first, how the property reads as a whole. That's the territory of our acreage landscape design work.
Suburbs we cover across the bayside and Redlands
On the Brisbane side of the bay we cover Lota, Gumdale, Wakerley, Belmont and Chandler. Through the Redlands: Thorneside, Birkdale, Capalaba, Alexandra Hills, Cleveland, Ormiston, Raby Bay, Wellington Point, Thornlands, Victoria Point and Redland Bay.
Just north of Lota, Wynnum and Manly have a dedicated page of their own. And if you're on an unlisted street somewhere between the bay and the gum trees, we almost certainly cover you too.
Fees, travel and getting started
A Design Discovery Consultation is $350 on-site. That standard fee covers the bayside and most of the Redlands; at the far southern end (around Victoria Point and Redland Bay) a small travel surcharge may apply, and we confirm it up front when you book. No surprises.
From the consultation you receive a design brief and a fee proposal for concept design, and the process moves at your pace from there.
Common questions
Let's design a garden that loves the bay.
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