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Photo Competition Entries and Winner!
Our photo competition is finished and we’ve been absolutely blown away by all our entries. The submissions represent so many different birds and locations across Australia that we couldn’t resist putting them all in one blog post with the winner! Thank you to everyone who sent photos in to us – they have been the…
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Portfolio: Jamberoo Consults
I have been visiting this rural property on and off for the last 3 years, each time providing the client with onsite sketch designs for different areas of the expansive garden. Working on this garden has been an absolute pleasure and I look forward to each new stage. The client has a knack for collecting…
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Back from a Bird Language Retreat
The mantra of the weekend, a quote shared by JA Baker: “The hardest thing of all is to see what is really there.” The next Bird Language Retreat is Apr. 13th–16th 2023 _____________________________________ By Hannah Preston Two weeks ago I mentored at a bird language and nature connection retreat hosted by Wangat Lodge and run…
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Portfolio: West Wollongong Revisit
The images in this blog post were taken of a local garden I designed a few years ago which has been filling out beautifully. The requested privacy is beginning to really take shape, the front garden has been reclaimed as a relaxing outdoor space which can be utilised more often by critters and humans alike.…
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Why are birds not visiting my bird bath?
There are a number of reasons for not seeing birds in a birdbath. You may not have allowed enough time for birds to find your birdbath, birds may actually be coming but you don’t see them or cats may be disrupting an array of local species. Placement as well as the type of habitat provided…
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Portfolio: Northmead Garden Design
I was lucky enough to be asked back for some follow up advice for this charming native habitat garden in the outer suburbs of Sydney today. The renovations are finally over and the garden hasn’t faired too badly with all the coming and going. This property is located backing onto bushland which in times of…
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Mallee Spun Copper Dishes at QLD Garden Expo!
Hi Everyone, This is just a heads up that we will be coming up to the Sunshine Coast to exhibit in next weeks QLD Garden Expo, we are very excited to be doing our first interstate show and would love to have a chat if you make it to the show. We will be at…
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We’re adjusting our pricing on July 1st 2019
On the 1st of July 2019, we’ll be adjusting our pricing to reflect rising copper prices and to invest in new tooling that will raise the finished quality of our dishes. The pricing change will not come into affect until the 1st of July 2019, so if you’ve had your eye on a Mallee Design…
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Mallee Specials @ Collectors Plant Fair 2018
During this year’s Collectors Plant Fair we will be offering a 10% discount on all birdbaths and spun copper dishes purchased and picked up from our stall! If you would like to pre-order anything for pick up from the fair on that weekend please get in touch by Thursday the 5th of April. We will also be…
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Portfolio: Garden Design West Wollongong
This front garden in West Wollongong was created to function as a place for peaceful relaxation and observation, it also needed to have careful consideration in regards to levels and access to the front gate and letterbox. Originally the front garden was an awkward, uninteresting space filled with easy to grow green plants, that was…
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Lane Cove Sustainability Lane @ Lane Cove Rotary Fair
We will be at the Lane Cove Rotary Fair and Sustainability Lane on Sunday 8th October 2017 from 9am – 4pm, with our birdbaths and water bowls. Be entertained by free live music, rides for the kids, great food and a variety of stalls. Visit the stalls along Sustainability Lane to find out the latest about living more sustainably. Come…
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Bathing Birds: Mallee Birdbath
I am pretty excited as we have a new toy, a wildlife camera to take photos of the birds in our birdbaths. It’s wonderful! I have tried so many times to take photos of the birds in my garden and unless you have a fantastic telephoto lens and loads of time to sit patiently and…
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Mallee Birdbaths and Water Bowls at The Collectors Plant Fair Next Weekend!
Hi Everyone, its market season again! We will have a stand at the ‘Collectors Plant Fair’ next weekend. It’s a great opportunity to come and check out our spun copper birdbaths and water bowls in ‘real life’ and also to come and have a chat or say ‘hello’. Collector’s Plant Fair 2017 Sat & Sun…
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Portfolio: Garden Design Ashfield
Dear Kath, the garden is beautiful and makes me very happy These are the words that I love to hear and is how this client describes her garden, and I can’t ask for anything more from a garden. This garden was built in December 2015 please see this link for details and this is my first…
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Mallee Design SHOP
It is official! the Mallee birdbaths and water dishes have their very own online shop! they will be much more comfortable there 😉 they can take up as much space and get as much attention as they need. Please visit shop.malleedesign.com.au for all bird bath purchases. We have had a price change also, all the new prices…
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Portfolio: Bondi Consult
This garden was a simple consult and then a couple of weekends of intensive clearing out by the client, then I came in for the fun part 🙂 Two large Frangipani trees shade the west facing front garden in Summer but let the well needed sun through in winter, it is practically illegal to remove…
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Floating Birdbath
This is the new steel tripod stand for my spun copper dishes, this stand is designed to disappear into the plants in a garden bed. It is made up of three thin metal rods that taper and attach to a steel ring on which the dish sits upon. This bird bath can be purchased over…
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Portfolio: Bulli Garden Design
This garden is located in the costal northern Wollongong suburb of Wollongong, on a low ridge and midway down a slope. When I saw the garden for the first time it was directly after the new house had been built, lawn, new soil and mulch had been installed already. The garden was planted out on…
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The Collectors Plant Fair 2016
I am going to have a stall at The Collectors Plant Fair next month selling my spun copper bird baths and I can’t wait! I have been a fan of this event since it was held in Bilpin, every year now it grows bigger and better and is a haven for fellow plant nerds 😉…
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The Mini Dish
Please welcome “The Mini” dish to my bird bath family, yes, they have been breeding and this is the result 😉 a small shallow bird bath that holds 2 litres of water and is 420mm wide x 25mm deep. In the image below you can see how they compare in size to the large dish.…
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Floating Birdbath
Introducing the ‘Floating’ bird bath, I am so happy with this design, the spun copper dish sits atop a steel tripod made of thin rods and two rings, the base simply disappears into the garden if you want it to. The steel tripod stands at 1 metre high, it is the tallest of all the bases…
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Bundeena Garden Design: Update
Last week I made a quick visit to one of my favourite gardens in Bundeena and snapped some photos before the sun went down. The first is of Anigozanthos ‘Landscape Lilac’. A few months ago I plant 12 each of Angus Stewarts new Kangaroo Paws ‘Landcape Lime’ and ‘Landscape Lilac’ in this garden and they…
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Sandstone Plinth Bird Bath
This is the 2nd style of my plinth bird bath series, a half sawn and half picked sandstone pedestal. I am very excited about this base, it is solid sandstone 220mm x 250mm x 750mm and in perfect visual balance with the spun copper dish. This bird bath can be purchased over here. If you are…
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Portfolio: Gordon Courtyard Garden Design
This small courtyard garden is part 2 of a 3 stage garden design for clients on the upper north shore. This was a middle garden that services a flat/studio attached to the main house, to say it was fairly un-loved is an understatement. See the before image below. It is a shady garden, dominated…
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