The soul and essence of a garden is created through intentional design, the planting of a seed and nurturing hands.

A Garden Alchemy celebrates the creative and transformative aspects of garden design, to make beautiful outdoor places. 

This workshop is for those yearning for a beautiful garden, regardless of their design abilities. I give you everything I know about the art and science of garden design and step you through a very intentional, yet magical process to create a meaningful garden masterplan that reflects your unique individuality.

Gardens are a place to heighten our senses. A place to evoke feelings of joy and peace, and an overwhelming sense of beauty. It’s not just about planting a few trees and shrubs. It’s more than that, and when gardens are designed in a meaningful way, that’s completely unique to the individual, they can give us and others more than we ever imagined.

Intentionally designed gardens can also create a positive change and can help to heal the planet. We feel small, but the small actions we take in our gardens, when multiplied across gardens worldwide, can have a significant impact.

Meaningful gardens come from an intentional plan. It is my goal and passion to help you design a garden masterplan with intention and meaning, to create more beauty and magic in your life and to have a positive impact on our natural world.

I have this deep desire to be surrounded by nature’s beauty and grow things.

It’s in the garden I can breathe and I believe everyone should have a garden place, where they too can breathe.


My professional journey has been quite the adventure, meandering from design to landscape and environmental pursuits to inn-keeping at Captains Cottage Hobart, all guided by my curiosity and creative intuition.

I started my career in the world of design as a graphic designer, working on high-profile Queensland tourism accounts. Then wanting a more flexible working life while raising my three young daughters, I became a self-taught ceramicist, sending one-of-a-kind pieces worldwide. As my daughters grew older, I became a university-qualified landscape architect, designing broad-scale public open space landscapes across Australia. Over two decades later, my spirited passion for landscape design and the natural world only grows deeper.

Gardens have always had a strong presence in my life and from an early age I have felt a deep-rooted connection to the natural world. Both my grandparents and parents were dedicated gardeners and my childhood was spent in beautiful gardens filled with roses, magnolias, hydrangeas, daphne and sweet peas, where the air buzzed with the gentle hum of bees and the graceful flutter of butterflies.

It’s these memories in the garden that will stay with me for a life time and the essence of these memories are preserved in my own garden today.

A year in the making, A Garden Alchemy is very close to my heart because the magical process of garden design should be accessible to everyone.

This online workshop is about designing gardens with intention, individuality and connection. Together we can transform landscape spaces into beautiful and meaningful garden places.

Designing gardens, nurturing and growing, creating beautiful outdoor places ignites something in me and a calmness descends upon me. When I think about teaching you how to dream, visualise and create beautiful gardens, I feel the same passion.

Nowadays, I live in southern Tasmania with my husband Sean, on our 19-acre farm by the sea, where we are creating a new garden from humble beginnings. It’s here, amidst the stillness I dream about creating change, one garden at a time, but first, we must begin with intention and start with a plan.

It will be my greatest joy to show you how.

Values & Purpose

Garden design is about creating spaces for people, where everything is connected.

FAQs

  • The workshop is completely self-paced, and depending on the size of your site some modules may take longer for some students, but I give you 12 month / four seasons to access the workshop. So you can complete the workshop in a short timeframe or slowly work your way through the modules, reflecting as each season passes.

  • Absolutely! The workshop has been designed for you, no matter where you live in the world. During the workshop you will be required to undertake your own research on topics such as climate zones and plant selection, but I will guide you through this.

  • Yes! During your four season access period you can watch the videos as often as you need, so at anytime you can jump back to a previous module.

  • A Garden Alchemy online garden design workshop is for anyone yearning for a beautiful garden. No matter how big or small your project is, or how developed your design abilities are. I believe anyone can learn the art and science of garden design.

  • Yes! A payment plan of 6 x weekly payments is available.

  • Due to the nature of this digital online workshop, we are unable to offer refunds.