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Welcome to Green Platypus Gardens!

As a Landscape Designer, Amanda Reynolds from Green Platypus Gardens designs holistic gardens based on permaculture principles and loves developing productive gardens, butterfly and biodiversity gardens and beautiful spaces of sanctuary.

As a Garden Educator, she teaches gardening  & sustainability to both children and adults. We’ve been involved in developing community & school gardens and inspiring people to build their own gorgeous gardens.

While you are here, please enjoy our latest blog posts, check out our latest projects and take a look at what events we have coming up!

Why Choose Us

Landscape design & horticulture experts

With over 35 years experience in the horticulture industry as a landscape designer, educator and nursery owner, you can trust Green Platypus Gardens to help you!

Commitment to permaculture principles

Green Platypus Gardens is committed to creating holistic gardens based on permaculture principles, developing productive gardens, butterfly and biodiversity gardens and beautiful spaces of sanctuary.

Emphasis on garden education

Green Platypus Gardens delights in teaching gardening and sustainability to both children and adults. We will empower you to take care and manage your own garden once we're done.

September in my Garden

What’s looking good 

Here in the Adelaide Hills it's been raining on an off for what seems like ages. We've had a few gorgeous days that remind me that spring is just around the corner, but as I write this, it's returned to 8 degrees C with moments of hail!

However, there is lots to be thankful for and many treasures sharing their beauty. The blossom trees are starting to flourish, following the different varieties of Wallflower (Chieranthus), Daffodils, Bulbinella floribunda, and Euphorbia. 

Fragrance also abounds at this time, with Daphne, Boronia and the first of the sweet peas - what joy!

What to do

  • I'm try to be very diligent keeping up with the weeds, who also love the change of season. Whatever I pull up goes on the worm beds, and whatever is left is covered with cardboard and mulch to add wonderful organic matter to the soil.
  • You can still prune pome fruit trees - these include apples, pears and quinces. Cut off the long fresh upright branches that won't bear fruit. Stone fruits can also still be pruned but not until it warms up, which is after they flower. It will reduce the fruiting, but make the tree much easier to manage.
  • If you have a worm farm, (which I hope you do!) feed your worms as they will be becoming more active in the warming weather. Add manures, weeds, kitchen scraps and cardboard/paper, and they will thank you by breeding and turning the waste into wonderful castings.
  • Plan your garden by improving soil, looking for empty spaces and deciding where to plant your veggies. Look out for interesting seeds and seedlings and check hoses and watering systems.

Our Clients Say

Amanda was extremely flexible in dealing with our needs, which often changed from week to week – always tackling each task with enthusiasm.  Some of her major achievements include:
  • A delightful dry stone walled pathway
  • Clearing and re-planting of an extremely steep bank behind the house
  • Laying of pathways and planting an avenue of shrubs for screening
  • Selection, placement and planting of an array of wonderful trees, shrubs and other plants
  • Installation of an irrigation system
If you are looking for a landscape artist who is ‘out of the box’ – Amanda is certainly the one!  Her approach is individual, her enthusiasm abounds, and no task is too small.
Jenny & Charles, Crafers, South Australia
I would like to thank you so much for the work you did in building our garden, and then planting it with such a lovely variety of plants and shrubs. I particularly like the way in which you used the large stones to make such a natural and attractive surround to the car park and walls to retain the flower beds.  I was also very pleased that the work was done to the budget you had indicated and done in a very timely way.
Dr John Morgan, Bridgewater, SA
Thank you for taking on my challenging ‘jungle’…for being able to view the ‘as-is’ and envisage the ‘could-be’.  The artistic, the fun and the practical are all brought together in your mind’s eye – and then you set out the plan and the process.  The icing on the cake was your understanding of permaculture principles and how they can be incorporated into a simple back yard.  You allow our idealism to be caught up into our reality.  That makes for a truly fulfilling garden.
Esmae Boutros, Melbourne
We have a native garden, designed and established by Green Platypus Gardens, that is the envy of the street. GPG listened to our desires while providing professional knowledge of soils and plants, along with cost-effective strategies.
H & D Bodein, Dover Gardens
Amanda helped us design an incredible garden plan for your 1 acre block. She came up with ideas we’d never have imagined that were both creative and practical. Thank you! Couldn’t recommend her more. 5 stars!
Verity & Tom, Finniss
Amanda from Green Platypus Gardens is a good listener –  her designs are creative and functional and she comes up with interesting options that are outside the square. She serves the client’s interests and goes the extra mile. Amanda knows her stuff and is able to make it accessible to the novice gardener.  I was never into gardening before, but she made it look easy and fun and now I love tending our patch. We are both loving our garden!
Dianne & Harald