Dirty Girl Designs

04/05/2025

This is what happens when retaining walls aren’t both engineered AND built correctly!
Uh oh 😳

10/11/2024

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

We will remember them......

07/09/2024

Lovely.
….. demonstrates that one man’s w**d is another’s medicine!

The dandelion is the only flower that represents the three celestial bodies of the sun, moon, and stars: The yellow flower resembles the sun, the puff ball resembles the moons, and the dispersing seeds resemble the stars.
The dandelion flower opens to greet the morning and closes in the evening to go to sleep.
Every part of the dandelion is useful: root, leaves, flower. It can be used for food, medicine, and dye for colouring.
Up until the 1800s, people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “w**ds” like chickw**d, malva and chamomile.
The name dandelion is taken from the French word “dent de lion” meaning lion’s tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves. 🦁
Dandelions have one of the longest flowering seasons of any plant.
Dandelion seeds are often transported away by a gust of wind and they travel like tiny parachutes. Seeds are often carried as many as five miles from their origin!
Birds, insects, and butterflies consume nectar or seeds of dandelion.
Honey from bees pollinating dandelions is quite delicious. 🐦 🐛 🐜 🦋 🐝.
Dandelion flowers do not need to be pollinated to form seeds.
Root of dandelion can be used as a substitute for coffee.
Dandelion is used in folk medicine to treat infections and liver disorders. Tea made of dandelion act as a diuretic.
If you know dandelions, they’ll grow shorter stalks to spite you.
Dandelions are, quite possibly, the most successful plants that exist. They are masters of survival worldwide.
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06/09/2024

If only more people realised this.
Exceptional design - landscape, architectural and civil - considers the ENTIRE ecosystem, of which humans are only a part …. and ensures we’re not a destructive part.
Our ethos should not be ‘do more, have more’…. rather ‘do less, do better and BE more’.

02/08/2024

Congratulations to Street Appeal Garden Solutions - recipients of the NSW Prestige Gardening Company of the year.
Congratulations and very well done Chris and team, thoroughly deserved.

04/07/2024

It’s wonderful to see one of my much loved creations getting an extra special dose of TLC.
This garden, created in 2021, and its owners remain treasured members of the DGD family and always will.

Here’s a glimpse of our work today in Valentine…beautiful gardens and landscape designed by Sue from ‘Dirty Girl Designs’ and maintained by ‘Street Appeal’.

22/05/2024

Thank you to all the wonderful NSW SES Lake Macquarie Unit peeps out there.
We’d all be much worse off without you.

09/04/2024

These 5 basic principles underpin our approach when designing lighting for your gardens and outdoor areas.
Gardens are beautiful, and so is the night sky - DGD ensures you, and your neighbours, are always able to enjoy both!

Too often, outdoor electric lighting installations at night are overlit, left on when not needed, and harmful to the environment. As a result, light pollution is a growing global issue that can…

04/04/2024

04/04/2024

No surprise this beautiful Euc has been voted ’Gum of the Year’.
There are small tree grafted cultivars available which you can’t go past as the perfect choice for home gardens.
The flowers are simply spectacular.

20/03/2024

Look at this beautiful garden!!
Winner Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

26/02/2024

Got some dodgey paving or cracked concrete in paths or driveway- why not do this!!
I love it ❤️🦋

This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. Pollinators certainly need all the help they can get 🦋 🐝