Michael Bates Garden Design
Landscape design is an intuitive and visceral process for michael and the team at bates.
Michael bates garden design. Our range of services take you from your initial garden dreams to the complete and mature reality all managed within one dynamic responsive team. A study tour of the works of spanish architect enric miralles that i took with craig burton and anton james in 2003 was a great experience. Co creation is at the heart of every bates project.
In the 1990s he started bates landscape which has become one of sydney s leading landscape companies his mission is simply to get more people outside and into the garden. Michael bates the new australian garden. Michael bates has been in the garden design and landscaping business for over 30 years.
Here in an edited extract from his latest book the new australian garden landscape designer michael bates takes us step by step through his transformation of this magical space. It s called the zoo garden a backyard in sydney s inner west that was once a private zoo. Green escape garden designed and constructed by michael bates.
It takes place on the ground and is an instinctive synthesis of our client s garden dreams the opportunities and possibilities of each site and michael s design inspiration.