About Lisa Harper Designs
Thoughtful, creative landscape design.
We work with every client to design practical, bespoke outdoor living spaces that perfectly match your personal style and desires.
We come to you, taking the time to really get to know your outdoor areas so that your rural landscape design enhances your lifestyle.
Whether you’re landscaping a country property, renovating an existing garden or building a new home, we’ll help design out outdoor sanctuary you’ll love spending time in.
Our passions include:
- sustainable native gardens with habitat for local wildlife
- staged master plans for heritage homes and country estates
- turning the blank canvas of new home gardens into tranquil retreats
- sharing permaculture principles and horticultural knowledge
- exterior styling and full makeovers for 70s and 80s brick houses
- creating tranquil outdoor spaces for families to relax, recharge, and reconnect
- revegetation and native wildlife habitat zones
Design-driven
We combine artistry and functionality to ensure your outdoor living spaces work seamlessly with your home and lifestyle.
Expert listeners
We work to deeply understand the needs of you and your family so that we can design spaces that are not only beautiful but elevate your way of living.
Experienced
We have over 21 years of experience in landscape design both in Australia and overseas, and have been named one of Melbourne’s Best Landscape Designers by CMP Stone.
Our philosophy.
First and foremost, landscape design needs to work for the people who live there. That’s why we collaborate with you to understand your needs, your personal taste, and the potential of your space, to deliver beautiful, functional exteriors around your property you’ll never want to leave.
Our process.
Our principal designer Lisa will meet with you to understand your ideas, style, and dream lifestyle. We’ll get to know your rural property, and discuss potential options with you. Then, we’ll shape your ideas into a beautiful, practical rural property landscape design that you can use with your preferred contractor or be supported through the landscape construction with one of our trusted landscapers.
Meet Lisa
Principal designer, Lisa Harper Designs.
A lifelong gardener, artist, and nature enthusiast, Lisa is the principal designer at Lisa Harper Designs. Raised in Tasmania to a family of farmers and entrepreneurs, Lisa has always felt a deep connection to nature, landscapes and is passionate about sustainable, liveable, and creative rural property landscape design. For Lisa, outdoor living spaces offer people the chance to reconnect with each other and with nature.
“Being in nature resets and soothes the soul,” she says. “We are so busy nowadays; outdoor spaces help us relax our body and mind. They should lure us outside, and invite us to slow down and take a breath in a beautiful environment. Your exteriors should be a little bubble of happiness, where you can switch off and just be yourself. I love working with people to create their personal oasis away from the rest of the world.”
What our happy clients have to say.
“We were worried about using a garden designer because we thought it would cost a lot of money, and we would get their design rather than our design. Our perceptions have changed, in fact it was very affordable, especially given the advice that we got, and the ability that we had to do our own work. I would recommend Lisa to anybody out there. Fantastic job.”
Andrew and Jane
“We used Lisa to help us design a garden for our town house, we could not have been more satisfied. Her knowledge in helping us to choose the right plants for the area we had was invaluable. Lisa also helped with the selection of nurseries which gave us excellent value and quality. We would certainly recommend her services.”
Barry and Jenny
“Lisa has been such a joy to work with. She assisted us in uplifting our backyard design from an overgrown, unused backyard to a low maintenance native garden and a beautiful functional space. She collaborates well with the landscaper to ensure that the design execution is aligned. Love the 3D design, it definitely helps bring the visualization to life. We can’t wait to start using the space once landscaping is completed. We definitely recommend Lisa Harper Designs!”
Dee
