Northern Beaches · 19km from Mona Vale

Landscape design and construction in Manly.

Courtyards, rooftops and heritage frontages at the busy end of the peninsula.

Landscaping in Manly

What moves the price out here.

Serving Manly and the surrounding streets

Manly gardens are small, valuable and overlooked, in both senses, so the work here is courtyards, roof terraces and frontages designed for privacy and low upkeep, often inside heritage and strata rules we know how to navigate.

→Courtyards and roof terraces: weight, wind and waterproofing
→Heritage frontages have planting and fence rules
→Strata approvals handled before any work starts

What we do here

Every service, available in Manly.

Design, construction, decks, walls and planting, plus grounds care for homes and strata.

Landscape Design

A scaled plan of your whole outdoor space, drawn around how you live, costed honestly before anything is built.

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Full Design + Construct

The whole outdoor space, designed and rebuilt: levels, drainage, structures and planting, sequenced once and done properly.

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Decks & Pergolas

Hardwood decks and pergolas built on engineered footings, certified where required, made for salt air and bare feet.

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Retaining Walls & Terracing

Engineered sandstone, block and sleeper walls that hold the hill properly, with the drainage that keeps them standing.

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Native & Coastal Planting

Planting schedules built for salt wind, sandy soil and busy owners: locally native, water-wise and guaranteed to establish.

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Garden Makeovers & Replants

The honest middle option: new planting, edges, mulch and small repairs on bones that are still sound.

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Residential Garden Care

Scheduled care that keeps a designed garden looking designed: pruning, feeding, mowing and the small fixes done early.

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Commercial & Strata Grounds

Grounds care for strata schemes, offices and holiday lets: fixed scope, scheduled visits, photo reports your committee can read.

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Proof · recent work

Recent work across Northern Beaches.

A Palm Beach headland block with collapsing sleeper wall, salt-burnt lawn, and bare sandy soil — **Palm Beach headland garden, design + construct, Palm Beach.** Full-exposure headland block: terraced sandstone, wind-zoned native planting, and a deck placed out of the southerly.

The same Palm Beach headland block transformed with sandstone terraces, native planting, and a spotted gum deck — **Palm Beach headland garden, design + construct, Palm Beach.** Full-exposure headland block: terraced sandstone, wind-zoned native planting, and a deck placed out of the southerly.

Before

After

Newport slope: deck, wall and stairs, Newport. A condemned deck and a clay cliff turned into certified terraces and a spotted gum deck with the good view.

A Narrabeen backyard with waterlogged lawn, muddy patches, cracked edging, and overgrown shrubs — **Narrabeen drainage-first makeover, Narrabeen.** Ag-line drainage, rebuilt soil and a replant that finally survived winter, for half the budget of a rebuild.

The same Narrabeen backyard makeover: native ground cover, fresh mulch, stone edging, brick wall cleaned and kept — **Narrabeen drainage-first makeover, Narrabeen.** Ag-line drainage, rebuilt soil and a replant that finally survived winter, for half the budget of a rebuild.

Reviews

What Manly homeowners say.

★★★★★

“A six-by-four courtyard everyone said was too small to bother with. Fernline designed it like a room: built-in bench, espaliered natives, lighting. It is now the best space in the apartment and the body corporate approved everything first go.”

— Rachel T., Manly

via Google · 2025-10

Local questions

Landscaping in Manly, answered.

Do you charge extra to come to Manly?

Manly is about 19km from our Mona Vale base, just outside the no-surcharge radius, so a small travel line may apply. We show it on the quote, we never spring it on you.

How soon can you start a job in Manly?

Design visits in Manly are usually within a week or two. From there, the design and any approvals take a few weeks, then the build is booked into our schedule. We give you the real timeline with the proposal, including any council approval window, rather than a hopeful start date.

Do you handle the council approvals for Manly jobs?

Yes. Decks, retaining walls over 600mm and tree removal across the Northern Beaches often need an approval path, and we scope which one applies at the design visit. Where approval or engineering is needed in Manly, we prepare the drawings and manage the application, with the cost itemised in the proposal.

Can you work with our body corporate or strata in Manly?

Yes. We handle strata and body-corporate approvals as part of the job, supply certificates of currency and SWMS before we start, and can run scheduled grounds care for common areas in Manly with a photo report after every visit.

Where we work

Other areas across Northern Beaches.

Mona Vale Newport Bayview Avalon Beach Palm Beach Narrabeen Collaroy Dee Why Freshwater Manly

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