Stop feeling trapped inside your home. Escape to your private native retreat.

Leave behind baking heat, muddy side yards, and contractor stress. Transform your entire block into a cool, quiet sanctuary with site planning, direct plant supply, and complete project coordination.

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🏆 2018 People’s Choice Award (Queensland Garden Expo) | 📖 Cover Feature (Backyard Magazine) | 🌿 Featured Designer (Native Plant Project)

THE STAND

You value privacy, natural aesthetics, and enduring quality. You want a property designed for Queensland heat, not a thirsty lawn that requires weekly mowing. You reject generic suburban layouts, weak exotic nursery stock, and artificial plastic turf.

If you want a basic builder sketch or a cheap lawn fix, this firm is not for you. This service targets ambitious property owners who want an extraordinary native landscape that increases property value and lowers outdoor temperatures.

A woman with short hair and wearing a light-colored dress is standing inside a modern house, touching the glass window while looking outside at the mountains and greenery. The interior features a large abstract painting and a chair with a fur throw. The house has a minimalist design with white walls and large glass doors, opening to a view of mountains, trees, and a grassy landscape.

THE NIGHTMARE YOU ESCAPE

You step out the back door in January and it feels like walking into an oven. Your front yard is a massive, empty lawn you mow every fortnight. Your side spaces remain a muddy, unused wasteland of exposed timber fences and air-con units.

You head back inside, turn on the air conditioner, and pull the blinds down. You feel trapped inside your own home because your yard lacks spatial structure. You face contractor guesswork, heavy machinery rushing in on day one, and dying exotic nursery stock. You waste money on land you cannot use.

YOUR ESCAPE ROUTE

Choose how completely you want to remove yourself from project stress.

The Outdoor Floor

Timber decking, local stone paving, stepping paths, retaining levels, and tough native groundcovers that handle foot traffic and define where you cook, dine, and walk.

The Outdoor Walls

A mix of privacy screening, low masonry or timber feature walls, and multi-layered native hedges that block out traffic noise, hide unsightly side yards, and stop neighbours from looking into your home.

The Outdoor Ceiling

Pergolas, timber overheads, and high native tree canopies positioned to block the harsh summer sun, lower ambient air temperatures, and create cozy, sheltered living areas.

A complete plan for your property before anyone digs a hole

You don't need a contractor rushing in with heavy machinery on day one. You need a clear, whole-block design so you don't waste money on materials or layout choices that fail down the road.

1. Site Analysis

I evaluate sun paths, drainage, soil conditions, wind patterns, and privacy issues across your front, back, and side yards.

2. Hardscape & Spatial Layout

We design the structural "bones" by mapping out decks, stone pathways, patio positions, retaining walls, side-yard storage zones, and entry pathways.

3. Your Full-Block Blueprint

We integrate a tailored South East Queensland native plant selection into the layout, adding the exact trees, shrubs, and groundcovers that bring the space to life and thrive in our climate with minimal fuss.

Recognised work

  • Logo for Sanctuary Modern Green Homes featuring the word 'Sanctuary' in large white text and 'Modern Green Homes' in smaller white text on a white background.
  • Logo with the text 'Native Plant Project' surrounded by a circular, native flower design.
  • Backyard Magazine logo with the text 'Creative Australian Living' underneath.

  • "Justin did an amazing design for our garden. He took the time to really understand the vision we had and match that to the house and surrounding area. We could not be any happier with the finished result."

    —Ian & Jackie, Castaways Beach

  • "Justin is an efficient landscape designer with strong project management and IT skills. He has a thoughtful understanding of structure and space, creating outdoor areas that are unique to our property needs, low maintenance, functional, and aligned with both our timeframe and budget requirements. We would happily recommend ‘Regenerative Designs’ to anyone looking to establish a low maintenance, native garden that is sustainable, feels connected to place, designed to thrive."

    —Glenn Hentschel and Michelle Cochrane

  • "Here we are 12 months later - absolutely thrilled with the end result! Justin's creative design and plant selection is wonderful. People stop and stare (or slowly drive by sneakily taking videos!) The simple, but elegant native garden is exactly what we asked for, and is a testament to his professional expertise. Truly he has brought our property to life. We cannot recommend him highly enough. Thank you Justin."

    —V. Bressan

  • "Justin recently completed a fantastic master landscape plan for our rural property on the Sunshine Coast. From the onset, we really liked his professionalism and approach to the process. He was very structured, detailed and provided good insight into the reasoning for his design. He communicated well and regularly with weekly updates throughout the process. Justin's creativity was amazing with the selection and placement of natives carefully interwoven with fruit trees and vegetable gardens, together with bird baths, fire pits etc will provide a relaxing outdoor space into the future. The 3D fly-through was very helpful and brought the plan to life. We are so happy with the end result, we can't wait to start landscaping. Thank you so much Justin."

    —Wendy Jefferies

  • "Justin has done a great job designing our garden for my wife and I. We have utmost confidence in what he has designed and started working on the landscaping. It is best to have it designed before rushing off and starting to do things. Justin is always professional and prompt at replying to queries. You are in a safe set of hands. Justin is meticulous in what he puts together along with the details. It makes hiring contractors so much easier knowing exactly what is required. The design process allowed for us to provide feedback several times along the way before the final plan was drawn up - so we were able to design the garden exactly how we had envisioned it along with some additional features that we would never have come up with ourselves. Worth every penny. I highly recommend Justin!"

    —Russell M

  • "Justin was an inspiration to work with and has designed our dream garden. His level of detail is astounding and he first produced a flyover so that we could visualize our garden. His thorough plans benefited the landscaper enormously. Our young garden is mostly complete and we are spending far more time out in it and we are welcoming in the wildlife like frogs, lizards, many bird species and native bees. This morning the blue faced honeyeater was drinking in the nectar from one of the kangaroo paws."

    —Elizabeth Carrigan

  • "Justin recently completed a garden design for my property and I couldn’t be happier with both the process and result. Throughput the planning process, Justin listened to and made useful suggestions regarding all aspects of the garden plan. The 3D fly-through of the concept really helped me visualise how the garden would look. Along with that, the meticulously devised plans and details make the intent crystal clear for me and the local landscapers. I’m looking forward to seeing it all come to fruition in the coming months. Thanks Justin."

    —Jenny Gilshenan

  • "Justin has shown professionalism in all steps of our design process. He listened to our ideas, understood our vision, was adaptable to the needs of our 5 acre block and our desire to implement the final plans ourselves. Thank you Justin for your prompt responses, keeping us very informed and answering our questions clearly. We've really enjoyed working with you and are very excited to watch our garden grow!"

    —Sylvia Brereton

  • "Justin did an excellent job in taking our ideas and thoughts, adding his own, and developing an amazing garden design. It not only looks beautiful, but is functional and practical and meets our brief of 'outdoor rooms' and less mowing! The whole process was enjoyable and transparent with good communication assisted by Justin's quick response to questions. We especially loved the 3D animated fly through showing our new garden design as a great addition to the very detailed flat plan. Working with Justin was an enjoyable and productive experience that we readily recommend to others."

    —Dawn & Paul

THE CONVERSATION

Talk about your property goals.

Skip lengthy intake forms and sales pitches. Use this 15 minute phone call to discuss your property and your desired future.

During our conversation, you share:

  1. The site problems you want to eliminate on your property.

  2. The privacy, shade, and lifestyle results you want achieved.

  3. How much of the build coordination you want us to handle for you.

We answer your specific questions, verify if your property matches our native design approach, and outline your path to a finished sanctuary.

You speak directly with principal designer Justin Nigh.

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