A layered Melbourne garden with winding gravel paths, clipped hedges and a flowering cherry

Melbourne · Est. 1995

Unique gardens for unique settings.

Boutique garden design & maintenance — considered, crafted and personally delivered across inner Melbourne and the bayside suburbs.

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About

Three decades of
considered gardens.

Adam Young has been designing unique gardens for unique settings since 1995. Over three decades, he has worked creatively across every scale and typology — from intimate inner-city courtyards and rooftop terraces to expansive family homes, heritage properties, and commercial premises — bringing the same depth of thought and personal commitment to every project, regardless of size.

Adam is known for creating gardens that exist in total harmony with the way a client lives and their relationship with the outdoors. His work resists easy categorisation: botanical and layered, formal and restrained, or sleek and contemporary — each garden is shaped entirely by the brief, the site, and the person it is made for. What unifies them is a consistently high standard of craft: inspired planting compositions, elegant built elements, and materials and artefacts sourced with genuine care and discernment.

Recycled boat timber fashioned into wave-like lawn edging. A rambling family garden threaded with children's hideaways. A refined entertaining zone that feels like an extension of the interior.

In every case, the garden is maximised for its own individuality — a singular green space that enhances the daily lives of those who inhabit it. Adam's design sensibility has been shaped by extensive international travel and a lifelong study of the world's great gardens — from the landscapes of America, Europe, Japan, and Thailand to the painterly, emotionally rich gardens of English designer Gertrude Jekyll, with their beauty, variety, and quiet sense of mystery. He has also designed temple gardens in both India and Australia, bringing a rare contemplative dimension to his practice.

  • Bachelor of Applied Science (Horticulture)University of Melbourne, Burnley College
  • National Trust (Victoria)Heritage landscape plans
  • Menzies Foundation consultantLandscape masterplan, Sages Cottage, Mornington Peninsula
  • Temple gardensDesigned in both India and Australia

Adam's work can be found across Melbourne's finest residential suburbs — every project designed, managed, and delivered personally, because that is the only way Adam has ever worked.

Services

Design, build
& care.

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Garden Design

A deeply personal design service — one that begins long before a single plant is chosen. Adam consults extensively with each client to understand their aspirations, lifestyle, and vision, while carefully assessing the unique conditions of the site: its light, soil, aspect, existing planting, and architectural character.

Every element is considered in relation to the whole — plant selection, materials, structure, and seasonal performance — to produce a garden that is cohesive, considered, and built to endure. Where required, detailed CAD drawings and photorealistic renders give clients a clear picture of the finished result before works begin. Adam can also manage the full project through to completion, coordinating a trusted network of specialist contractors, with ongoing consultation available throughout and beyond.

  • Site & brief consultation
  • Planting design
  • CAD drawings
  • Photorealistic renders
  • Full project management
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Garden Maintenance

A tailored maintenance service for both existing clients and new properties. Regular scheduled visits keep your garden performing at its peak through every season — covering pruning, weeding, edging, lawn care, seasonal planting adjustments, and a full site clean-up on each visit.

Every maintenance program is designed around the specific needs of the property, not a generic checklist, and is delivered personally by Adam with the same attention to detail as the original design. Whether monthly, seasonal, or as-needed, the goal is always the same: a garden that looks cared for, not just maintained.

  • Pruning & shaping
  • Seasonal planting
  • Lawn care & edging
  • Monthly or seasonal programs
  • Full site clean-up

Visualisation

See the garden
before it exists.

Where required, AYGD produces detailed CAD drawings and photorealistic renders of the proposed design — so you can walk through your garden, in every light, before a single stone is laid. Below: digital renderings from the concept for the Windana Courtyard in St Kilda.

Photorealistic aerial render of the Windana courtyard concept
Concept masterplan
Render of a covered alfresco area with a long timber dining table
The alfresco table
Render of the main lawn sweeping past a deep verandah
Main lawn & verandah
Render of a pergola walk with columns wrapped in climbers
The pergola walk
Render of a sunken timber deck beside a curved brick path
The sunken deck
Render of two people talking beneath the garden pergola
Beneath the pergola

Recent projects

Gardens shaped by
the people within them.

Malvern garden — winding gravel paths through layered borders of box, maple and cherry blossom
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Malvern

A rambling garden of layered borders — clipped forms, burgundy foliage and blossom threaded along winding gravel paths.

Brighton garden — a formal courtyard with stone water feature, pencil pines and chequerboard paving
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Brighton

Formal restraint — a carved stone fountain held between columns of conifer, magnolia and a chequerboard of travertine and thyme.

Middle Park garden — a sculptural knot garden of clipped box with corten and polished steel sculpture
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Middle Park

A sculptural parterre — interlocking rings of corten and mirror-polished steel rising from a knot garden of clipped box.

The philosophy

Beauty, variety, and a
quiet sense of mystery.

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Designed & delivered personally

Your garden
is waiting.

The best gardens are the ones designed for the life lived within them. If you'd like to discuss what yours could become, Adam would be delighted to hear from you.

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Contact

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your project.

Sends directly to Adam — or write to adam@adamyoung.com.au.