Nicholas Bray Landscapes has been working closely with Zauner Construction, in Orange at Bloomfield. Our landscape involvement has included a master plan, for  a multi storey medical facility, childcare centre and motel. This project is a significant development in regional NSW. With future stages to roll out over the coming years. The design approach includes, low maintenance planting schemes, shade trees and protected seating zones, to enhance microclimates. Click here to view Bloomfield’s website.

About the author

Nicholas Bray, Registered Landscape Architect (RILA 958, AILA)

Nicholas Bray is the principal of Nicholas Bray Landscapes, a landscape architecture and construction business based in Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands. With 25 years of experience across landscape architecture, horticulture and environmental planning, he designs and builds gardens for large acreage estates, rural properties, vineyards, schools and commercial sites throughout the Southern Highlands, Central and Southern New South Wales.

Nicholas studied landscape architecture in Australia and Canada, and horticulture at the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley in the United Kingdom. He has worked at the Hanbury Botanical Gardens in La Mortola, Italy, and completed projects in Spain, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Canada.

His work balances the built and natural environments with site specific planting, stonework, pools and water features, and he is well known for guiding complex landscape plans through council approval.