New at Fairhill
Plant Matchmaking
Speed-dating-style tables where our horticultural team match you with exactly the right plants for your garden.
What it is
A fast, practical way to choose the right plants
Plant Matchmaking is a fast, practical advice session focused on choosing the right plants for your conditions, garden style and lifestyle. Pull up a chair at one of our speed-dating-style tables and our horticultural team will match you with plants that will thrive.
Whether you want a quick steer in ten minutes or a fully designed garden delivered and supplied, there's an option to suit. Choose the level that's right for you below.
Who you'll consult with
Meet our horticultural team
Your consultation is with one or both of our horticulturists.
Melinda Carrick
Fairhill Horticulturist
Marion Birkenbeil
Fairhill Horticulturist & Registered Landscape Architect
Previously subcontracted with Project Urban, Florafied Environmental Design, and Mark Bizzell (Environmental Landscape Design).
Choose your match
Five ways we can help
From a free ten-minute chat to a full landscape design — and most fees come straight back to you in plants.
Speed Dating
Pre-book for $10 (fully redeemable on plants)
A fast, practical advice session on choosing the right plants. A 10–15 minute session with our horticultural team.
- Available Mondays & Tuesdays, 9am–12 noon
- Free of charge when the horticulturist is available
- Safest to pre-book for $10 — fully redeemable on plants
In-Nursery Garden Consultation
Up to 30 minutes · fully redeemable against plants
A longer, more detailed conversation with the horticulturist about your garden, conditions and plant choices.
- Up to 30 minutes with the horticulturist
- Must be booked in advance (subject to availability)
- Fully redeemable against plant purchases
Paid Garden Consultation (Onsite)
Fully redeemable against plant purchases over $500
Delivered by horticulturist Marion Birkenbeil (Registered Landscape Architect). Includes onsite consultation, travel time, and design / report preparation.
- On-site consultation at your property
- Includes travel time and design / report preparation
- Fully redeemable against plant purchases over $500
“If you'd like us to come to you and design this properly, we can do that — and the fee comes back to you in plants.”
Landscape Design Services
Fixed fee — minimum $300 or $100/hour
A complete design package, including plant selection, site advice, landscape plans, plant schedules and planting notes.
- Plant selection, site advice and landscape plans
- Plant schedules and planting notes
- Fixed fee — minimum $300 or $100/hour
- Redeemable against plant orders over $1,000
Green Life Trade
Trade Consultations for landscapers & professionals
For landscapers and professionals — Trade Consultations on request to support your projects with the right plants, supplied.
- Tailored support for landscapers and professionals
- Trade Consultations available on request
What you get
From a simple report to a full AutoCAD design
It can be as simple as the preparation of a report and/or a garden design with planting ideas and landscaping notes as required. Or as detailed as a scaled AutoCAD design, if your surveyor or draftsperson provides the site plan as an AutoCAD file — with all existing structures, underground services, contours and so on.
Typically the plans are designed in A3 size and provided digitally, and include:
- A comprehensive planting plan
- A complete plant list
- General landscape works notes
Printing of reports (A4 or A3 size) and plans (usually A3 size) is charged extra.
We can help design just what's needed
As you can see, we can help design just what's needed — and supply everything. From a quick plant match to a full landscape plan, our team takes you from idea to garden, with the plants to match.