DeepEarth Sustainable Landscapes

About

About DeepEarth Sustainable Landscapes

DeepEarth is an accredited contractor with the Landscape Industries Association of Tasmania (LIAT) and the proud winner of four awards at their annual Awards of Excellence - two in 2012, and twice winner of Best Residential Environmentally Sustainable Project in 2013 and 2015.

We have been creating gardens since 1999 in London, Melbourne, Hobart and the South of Tasmania. Working closely with our clients and utilising a skill base that covers all aspects of soft and hardscaping, with an emphasis on traditional craftsmanship, we aim to help realise a whole range of outdoor visions, establishing unique and inspiring landscapes for relaxation, rejuvenation, or restoration.

Our guiding value is to leave a minimal footprint on the environment and strive to operate in harmony with the earth. Wherever possible we choose native, drought-tolerant and local plant species over exotics to promote biodiversity. We use organic and natural pest-control methods, and we source as many ethical, non-toxic and locally produced materials as we can. In this way we are able to ensure that our gardens are not only beautiful but also sustainable.

Mind, Body, Earth – Gardens for Wellbeing

For interested clients we also specialise in developing gardens as therapeutic spaces. Maximising the sensory potential of nature, we can design and construct gardens with healing aspects, whether for home or business.

About Dave Driver

I grew up on a dairy farm in north Queensland, a fertile backdrop to my personal as well as working relationship with the earth. After graduating from the Australian National University in Canberra with a forestry degree, I travelled to the UK where I undertook an apprenticeship in landscape gardening in the late 1990s. I went on to work for several landscaping companies in London, developing my passion for and experience in garden design and construction. During this time I also undertook postgraduate studies in depth-psychology whilst working extensively with psychiatric patients which fostered my interest in the therapeutic potential of nature. I spent three years landscaping in Melbourne, where DeepEarth was conceived, before settling in lutruwita / Tasmania to service Hobart and the Huon Valley.

Services

Design and consultation

Personalised service

Plant advice and consultation

Hand drawn designs

Hardscaping

Paving, Decking, Fencing, Pergolas

Water features, Green roofs

Stonework, Rendering

Stonemasonry

Gabion walls

Softscaping

Plant selection and planting

Irrigation systems, pruning and transplanting

Lawn establishment and maintenance 

Garden maintenance.

Landscape Designer and Contractor

Our guiding value is to leave a minimal footprint on the environment and strive to operate in harmony with the earth. Wherever possible we choose native, drought-tolerant and local plant species to promote biodiversity in this time of unprecedented environmental challenge and mass extinction.

Avoiding artificial pesticides we use organic, natural pest-control methods and source as many ethical, non-toxic and locally produced materials as we can. In this way we are able to ensure that our gardens are not only beautiful but also sustainable.

We respectfully acknowledge Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional and original owners of Tasmanian lands and waters; and recognise the unique and lasting contribution that Tasmanian Aboriginal people make to lutruwita / Tasmania and its unique cultural landscapes. Aboriginal management practices, over countless millennia, embody the highest standard in sustainable land use to which we can only aspire.

Testimonials

We are thrilled with the garden, so thank you, you have all been great – very easy to work with and flexible as the garden and plans progressed.

Thanks again. Romy & Corey

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Dave listened to our ideas and then turned them into something more wonderful than we could have imagined. He and his team were an absolute pleasure to work with. The quality of the