MG Gardens

Name: MG Gardens
Telephone: 0439 310 649
Rating: 5

9 Reviews

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About Us

MG Gardens is an award-winning landscape design and horticultural consultancy firm based in Bayside, Melbourne. Meg Geary specialises in residential design, natural playground design, and planting design for homeowners and professionals. She also offers garden consultations and plant sourcing services for homeowners and professionals alike. Our aim is to design beautiful gardens that are responsive to each client, their needs, house architecture and surrounding landscape, creating a sense of place and a garden that is unique to each project. Our strong horticultural focus results in a rich and textured planting palette, suited to the style of your garden, the site conditions and your lifestyle. Our services include planting design, horticultural consultancy and full landscape design services. We look forward to working with you on your next project.

Services Provided

Accessible Design, Deck Design, Drought Tolerant Landscaping, Edible Gardens, Garden Design, Landscape Design, Landscape Plans, Patio Design, Pool Landscaping, Swimming Pool Design, Planting Design, Horticultural Consultancy

Areas Served

Bentleigh, Bayside, Eastern Suburbs, Mornington Peninsula, Malvern, Malvern East, Brighton, Brighton East, Carnegie, Caulfield North, Caulfield East, Caulfield, Caulfield South, Elsternwick, Elwood, Sandringham, Hampton, Hampton East, Black Rock, Beaumaris, Moorabbin, Cheltenham, St Kilda, Albert Park, Middle Park, South Yarra, Toorak, Armadale, Hawthorn, Camberwell, Canterbury, Glen Huntly, Ormond, Highett, Saint Kilda West, St Kilda East

Awards

Bronze Medal, Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2018, Landscaping Victoria Emerging Designer Award, Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2013, Highly Commended AILDM Student Design Awards 2012, Cert IV Applied Design (Landscape), Bachelor of Applied Science (Horticulture).

Professional Information

Current member of both Landscaping Victoria and Australian Institute of Landscape Designers and Managers (AILDM). Participant of the AILDM CPD Program.

8 Projects

Design ideas for a country front yard full sun formal garden for spring in Melbourne with with flowerbed and gravel.

Country Style

Design ideas for an australian native eclectic xeriscape in Melbourne.

9 Reviews for MG Gardens

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HU-789551221

The Bentleigh West Kindergarten Committee approached Meg from MG Gardens to design two separate sections of the outdoor space within our kindergarten. In both instances Meg's professionalism and advice was exactly what we needed. She took the needs and wants of the Educators and children, and the safety concerns of the committee and designed beautiful, thoughtful, innovative and cohesive areas that are being used everyday. Meg has continued to support to the committee and kindergarten beyond completing the project by providing advice in regards to construction and answering many calls about replanting and maintenance of the equipment. We have no hesitation in recommending MG Gardens to other early childhood establishments or anyone looking for a designer that can nail a brief perfectly. Thanks Meg! - Linda Andonopoulos (BWK President '15 & '16)

September 14, 2020

Comment from MG Gardens:

Thanks Linda, glad to hear it worked well for all concerned.

Amalia

Caring, thorough and extremely talented. Also patient and tolerant - both highly underrated qualities.

September 13, 2020

Comment from MG Gardens:

Thanks Amalia, looking forward to catching up after restrictions have lifted to see how it's all going!

zhen

Meg is amazing. She has gone above and beyond with our garden also giving us follow up visits at no cost. Our garden design is wonderful.

September 11, 2020

Justin Kennedy

We have been working with Meg for the past year on our one acre garden, set on a sloping block in The Dandenongs and could not be happier. Meg thoroughly examined our property, with all of its challenges, then after discussing our likes and dislikes, designed an absolutely wonderful garden that is varied, functional and beautiful, highlighting so many different plants and sections as the seasons change. Meg sourced the plants and placed them all (over 1000 so far), then followed up regularly over the year as the garden established itself. Meg is friendly and knowledgeable and a total delight to work with. We would recommend her without hesitation.

June 9, 2020Last modified:June 10, 2020

Comment from MG Gardens:

Thanks Justin for the lovely review! I'm looking forward to the next 1000 plants!

Roy Seager

Meg came to discuss our requirements for renovating our delapidated front garden following our house move and then came up with a design which totally met our requirements as to plants and colours. Her knowledge of plants was extensive and we receive many complimentary comments from passers-by following implementation of her design. We are absolutely delighted with the result. Very highly recommended.

September 12, 2019

Comment from MG Gardens:

Hi Roy, so glad that you you;re happy with the final result! I'm looking forward to seeing how it all develops in the coming years. Certainly an improvement on the dusty lawn!

Greg & Jo Hyde

It’s been a pleasure working with Meg to revamp our garden. Her professionalism and attention to detail is commendable. So too is her plant knowledge and ability to recommend stunning, yet practical solutions. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Meg and her team.

March 13, 2019

Comment from MG Gardens:

Thanks so much Greg and Jo. It's been an absolute pleasure working with you and I love that you're taking such fabulous care of your garden. Looking forward to seeing it develop over the coming years.

Sarah Angliss

Meg has been instrumental to helping us achieve our garden vision and we don't hesitate to recommend her. She is extremely easy to work with, nailed our brief and delivered two amazing concept plans that allowed us to implement our chosen design at our own pace. We then engaged Meg a second time to assist with plant selection and planting design for the final stage of our garden. Meg has been very professional in all her dealings and communicates honestly and accurately in relation to time frames and cost estimates. We highly recommend MG Gardens.

May 21, 2017Last modified:May 21, 2017

Kahli Ritchie

We could not rate Meg high enough for her dedication and talent - our garden has been totally transformed into something better than we imagined. We found Meg to be very professional, reliable and really worked in with our vision which made it a really rewarding experience. Thank-you again, we are very grateful K & S Ritchie

May 9, 2017

Acre

Meg knows plants!!!! There are so many designers out there that know a small selected palette but Meg is one designer that crosses over into a horticultural realm. I've been amazed at the ideas she can bring to the table when engaged to provide planting palette advice. If you're looking for a friendly designer that goes the extra mile when creating and that knows in-depth horticultural knowledge look no further than Meg.

May 2, 2017

Comment from MG Gardens:

Hi Brett, It's been great working with you on your projects. So varied! Good luck in the upcoming awards. 2 out of 10 finalists is amazing!

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Business Details

Business Name

MG Gardens

Phone Number

0439 310 649

Website

www.mggardens.com.au

Address

Bentleigh, Victoria 3204
Australia

Typical Job Cost

AUD $100,000 - 250,000+

Cost details above are indicative of a project cost. Design costs will vary depending on the scope of works, complexity and scale of the project.

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46 Comments

Commented: Type of trees:Hi Suz, the trees are Pyrus nivalis, Snow Pear.

June 14, 2019

Commented: Landscaping after the build. Where to start?If the budget permits, it may be worth spending some money on a landscape designer to come out and give you some suggestions and advice or even do the design for you. You can find designers local to y...

April 17, 2018

Commented: Do you have plant lists for your gardens?Hi Diana, happy to provide you with a plant list for Ben Harris Gardens and my garden 'Harmony' if you like. Just let me know. Vanessa, I suppose there's no chance you could actually tag Ben and I wi...

March 24, 2018

Commented: australian native forumGet in touch with your local landcare group and council/native nursery as they will be able to help with suggesting plants suitable for your area and techniques to make it easier. Generally it's lots ...

January 2, 2018

Commented: Identification of lawn weedThere's quite a few things it could be, and at first I thought it may be kikuyu self seeding into the lawn area. However it may be crows foot grass. You may struggle controlling it on a buffalo lawn w...

December 31, 2017

Commented: Plant typeHi Brett, this is an image from Outdoor Establishments in Sydney, one of their Mosman projects. Maybe you can ask them? I'm tipping Dianella or possibly Liriope. Leaf blade is too wide to be one of th...

November 13, 2017

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