The Design Studio

"A garden is never finished. It is a place we return to, season after season, and simply call it home."

Fieldwork Landscape Studio was founded in Bowral in 2016 by landscape architect Elena Marsh, after a decade spent designing gardens for country properties across the Southern Highlands and South Coast of New South Wales.

The studio began with a simple idea: that a garden should be planned with the same rigour as the house it surrounds. Structure first — the walls, the paths, the levels, the rooms outdoors — then planting, then time, which is the one material no designer can buy more of.

We work as a small integrated team of landscape architects and horticulturists, alongside the architects, builders and stonemasons who shape a property alongside us. Most of our work is long-term: master plans for country houses that are built out over several seasons, and established gardens brought carefully back to life.

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A formal garden with tightly clipped geometric hedges and a gravel path.
2016
Studio Founded
Bowral
Southern Highlands, NSW
Private
Country & Coastal Gardens