About

About “Sanctuary Water Gardens”

“Sanctuary Water Gardens” is owned and operated by Jeremy Cole, enthusiastic lifelong gardener. Actively involved in designing and constructing personalised gardens and resort style landscapes. He is an accredited “Green Gardener” and loves helping others, earth care, sustainable living, and holistic lifestyle.

He has a passionate belief in the serenity and resulting relaxation that can be fulfilled from a well planned and executed landscape garden design.

Jeremy has extensive experience, successfully landscaping in different climatic zones, in Australia, South Pacific Islands and North America.

Business Mission

Helping others create a sanctuary in their home and garden. Design and construct personalised gardens and landscapes to best serve family’s needs. Maximise property liveability, add value, comfort, sense of size and charm with flowing “Feng Shui” inspired gardens and water features.

Landscaper

Jeremy’s strengths are his hands on approach and ability to ensure that creative solutions are managed into action. Multi staged developments are implemented as a living work of art.

Landscape specialties include

  • Feng Shui design, low maintenance, flowing gardens.
  • Water feature installations.
  • Garden art installations.
  • Home and garden harmonisation and beautification.
  • Sloping land/ terraced gardens, and dry rock retaining walls.
  • Redevelopment of large and small properties.
  • Improving underdeveloped back yards into desirable living areas.
  • Adding value to property.

 

 

Projects including

  • Eaglemont family home

This is a beautiful family home situated on a sloping block with a pool and multiple living areas.  The terraced landscape is a masterpiece that was curated over time. Multiple alfresco dining areas are surrounded by flowing gardens and interconnecting paths. Different retaining walls systems including bluestone walls with wide mortar joints and dry rock walls (no mortar) give creative diversity to each area. A 20 metre long pergola and trellis system flanking the side of property offering privacy from neighbours view.  Multiple paving areas, and multiple water features make this home a joyful living experience.

  • Hawthorn inner city modern townhouse

An idyllic sanctuary resting on the doorstep of bustling inner city school and cafe precinct. This front garden redevelopment involved complete demolition of the existing garden to create a grand entrance into the home. Truckloads of soil were added to raise the garden height and create a seamless transition from the natural timber deck to the lawn, and maximising family play space. Boulder sized rocks were integrated into the raised garden beds, offering both the framework and as seating positions for entertaining and family playtime. This inner city sanctuary is completed with water features, night lighting and a vista to the sun lounge plateau.

  • Ivanhoe home

Olympic period home blank canvas turn around into a delicious food forest with fruit trees, sweeping lawns and lush gardens all sustained by drought breaker recycled “grey water” irrigation system and water tanks. Changed front entrance direction, addition of curving red brick paving flowing through lawns towards merbau decking and hanging lounge. Cascading wide steps flow into oasis of multiple water features and gardens. Privately secured at rear of property with full width pergola and trellis system framing the sanctuary.

  • Templestowe new family home

New build landscape on sloping block. New install of garden including bluestone retaining walls, rose garden, instant lawns, pebble garden with automated bluetooth watering system.

  • Carlton heritage cottage courtyard

Charming heritage cottage reinvigoured and reclaimed tiny inner city courtyard. Curving bluestone raised garden beds dovetailing as seating areas to create more room for entertaining. Planted with advanced size Crepe Myrtle trees and Chinese Star Jasmine. Fine-tuned and upgraded existing cobble stone paving.

 

World wide projects

I love my landscaping…. I love travelling to exotic places, and being part of the solution to a better world….

I feel very blessed to share my passion and landscape vision world wide while having opportunity to meet inspiring people and making life long friends on the way.

 

  • Noosa QLD hinterland natural bush block acreage

A hidden oasis and tropical retreat centre located on 12 acre Melaleuca Teatree forest with a creek. Beautification to main house area required contouring surrounding land, creating flowing open lawns surrounded by raised garden beds and featuring a dam, mandala veggie garden, fruit tree food forest and swale permaculture system.

  • Santa Fe New Mexico “Adobe style” homestead

It was a privileged to work on this beautifully presented adobe homestead’s addition of new guesthouse “Casita”. Sacredly secluded on a high elevation desert environment with a majestic backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo mountains and the spectacular sunsets over the Jemez range.

The Casita’s landscape and beautification works included a feng shui recreation to the front entrance of main house. Adjusted driveway functionality to allow new traffic flow and parking areas. Terracing of surrounding garden areas and chiselled into side of the sloping property to create new access paths to the Casita and lower areas of land. Raising height of land surrounding Casita to create patio areas to the entrance and side vistas. Landscaping using local flagstone paving and pebbles.

  • Sacramento California residential acreage

Frontier heritage style farmhouse positioned on 2 acres. Complete with vaulted horse barn converted into a yoga studio with soothing sounds from the koi lotus pond waterfall feature. This is the home of the legendary world famous “Lotus Garden Meditation Centre”.

Feng shui property make over and beautification works included redesign of the house entrance and surrounding gardens. Installation of feature Redwood panel  front fence accented with a line of advanced Crepe Myrtle trees.

Stylise and upgrade works included functional enhancements to the yoga studio car park, addition of a citrus grove, rose, herb and veggie gardens. Flowing gardens, interconnecting paths, poolside lawns, and other alfresco dining areas help make this home a peaceful retreat.