ABOUT
STUDIO PROFILE
Award-Winning Landscape Design Studio in Berry and the NSW South Coast
Paperbark Landscape Design creates refined, enduring gardens for large-scale country and coastal properties across Berry, the NSW South Coast and Southern Highlands.
Each landscape is conceived as a complete composition - architectural in structure, generous in planting and responsive to the land, architecture and way our clients live. Sustainability is integral, with natural systems guiding gardens that withstand exposed and rural conditions while thriving with a lighter hand over time.
The result is an elegant, grounded setting for modern family life - a place for quiet retreat, connection to nature and effortless entertaining.
Together with trusted local architects, builders, landscape contractors and craftspeople, we help ensure each project is realised with precision and integrity.
More than landscape design. A transformative experience, guiding you from first ideas through to a beautiful garden.
MEET THE DIRECTOR
MICHAEL BLIGH
For Michael, landscape design is about more than how a garden looks - it is about how it works for the people who live there. He takes time to understand each site and what his clients need from it, developing every design collaboratively so the result feels genuinely personal.
Michael grew up on a cotton and table grape farm in St George, Queensland. Growing crops, building gardens, repairing irrigation and operating machinery gave him practical experience that still informs his work.
After a decade spent as a director in digital advertising, managing large teams and working with clients including Yahoo!, Samsung and Telstra across Sydney and London, he knew it was time to pursue the work he had always felt drawn to: designing gardens.
Michael holds a Design Degree from the University of Sydney and a Diploma of Landscape Design with Distinction from Ryde School of Horticulture. Combining formal training, client experience and hands-on knowledge, he creates imaginative gardens that are beautiful, practical and buildable.
He lives in Berry with his wife and daughters, and remains a long-suffering Wallabies and Queensland Reds supporter.
