About the Practice
Award-Winning Landscape Architecture Since the 1990s
David Claude Landscape Design is a Greensborough-based landscape architecture, design and construction practice serving Melbourne's north-east and inner-east. Three decades of work, recognised by Landscaping Victoria and the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show.
Founder & Principal Designer
David Claude
David Claude founded the practice in the 1990s with a deliberate idea: residential landscapes should be designed and built by the same team. Three decades on, the discipline of that idea has produced the portfolio you see in the gallery: sloping blocks, integrated pool landscapes, heritage refurbishments and acreage estates across Eltham, Warrandyte, Diamond Creek, Ivanhoe, Heidelberg and Templestowe.
The work specialises in sloping-block design, the steep difficult sites generalists decline. It also specialises in indigenous Victorian planting, a palette that suits Melbourne's climate and matures into gardens that read as part of the surrounding landscape rather than imposed on it.
David is a Landscaping Victoria (LIAV) Master Landscaper, a Registered Building Practitioner and a historical Gold Medallist at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show.
Selected Portfolio
Three Decades of Gardens
Recognition
Awards & Press
Landscaping Victoria (LIAV) Master Landscaper
Industry credential
Multiple LIAV Industry Awards
Across residential design and construction categories
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show (MIFGS) Gold Medal
Historical award
Featured: "Australia's Best Gardens"
Television feature
Featured: "Outdoor Design & Living"
Magazine features over multiple years
Registered Building Practitioner
Construction credential
The Studio
Greensborough-Based, North-East Focused
We're based at 888 Nell St in Greensborough, a deliberate location at the centre of the area we serve. From here we reach Eltham in eight minutes, Diamond Creek in ten, Warrandyte in twenty, and the inner Banyule suburbs of Ivanhoe and Heidelberg almost as quickly.
That proximity matters because residential landscape work is hands-on. Site supervision happens regularly, not occasionally. Material deliveries, council inspections and trade coordination work better when the studio is up the road, not across town.
The studio holds the design process (concept, documentation, planting plans) and supervises every build directly. There is no third-party contractor between the design and the work.
