Register your garden. Get a baseline score. Earn badges as it improves. Watch it become part of Melbourne's ecological network.
Melbourne's gardens cover more land than all its parks combined. Most of that land grows exotic plants, compacts soil, and drains water into gutters. But some gardens -- designed with layered planting, habitat structure, and indigenous species -- are doing something different. They are building corridors, sheltering fauna, and restoring the ecological function that urban development removed.
The Ecological Registry makes that difference visible, measurable, and connected. A score. Badges. A public profile. A place in the network.
Based on five ecological pillars -- biodiversity, soil, habitat, connectivity, and evidence. Honest, transparent, and yours to improve.
Species Rich. Habitat Builder. Corridor Node. Amphibian Active. Each badge marks a real ecological threshold your garden has crossed.
Your garden appears on the corridor map. Neighbouring registered gardens connect. The network becomes legible to councils, planners, and ecologists.
Field notes, species lists, fauna sightings, installation dates. A timestamped story of your garden improving over time.
Your garden gets a public profile on the Registry. Address is private. Story, score, and species list are public.
Gardener & Son visits, assesses the five ecological pillars, and sets your baseline score. This is where the story starts.
Plant more species. Add habitat elements. Build a moisture basin. Each change is documented as a field note. The score updates.
Badges unlock as your garden crosses ecological thresholds. Your profile grows. Your garden becomes part of the urban ecological network.
The score isn't about perfection. It's about knowing where your garden is and what better looks like. Each pillar is transparent, explainable, and improvable.
See scoring in contextBadges are awarded automatically when your garden crosses an ecological threshold. You can't buy them. You can't shortcut them. You earn them by improving your garden.
Existing garden? Gardener & Son visits, baselines it, and sets your score. Even an average garden starts somewhere. The registry tells you exactly how to improve it -- and documents every step.
Gardener & Son designs and installs ecological gardens for Melbourne homes. Every new garden we design is registered from day one -- with a full species list, field notes from installation, and a score that grows with the planting.
Public profiles show suburb, score, species list, badges, and field notes. Your address, detailed notes, and any sensitive records stay private. You control what appears. The registry is designed to be legible to neighbours -- not to expose your home.
Register an existing garden or start fresh with an ecological design. Either way, the score is yours to build.