Guide · Landscape features
Custom metal hardscape features — planters, screens, edging, seating, water features and sculpture — in aluminium, steel and stainless. Designed, engineered and made by POBOX and supplied install-ready for landscapes across Australia — fitted by your builder, landscaper or trades, guided by our team, with specialist installation by our own crew where a project calls for it.
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POBOX Designs designs, engineers and makes custom metal landscape and hardscape features across Australia, supplied install-ready — fitted by your builder, landscaper or trades with our guidance, with specialist installation by our own crew where a project calls for it. Hardscape features are the built, non-plant elements of a landscape — planters, screens, edging, retaining, seating, water features, sculpture, gates and structures — and in metal they can be made bespoke to any form and finish.
We work in aluminium, steel, Corten and stainless steel, chosen to suit the design and the site — from crisp powder-coated aluminium to warm weathered Corten.
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Hardscape features are the built, non-plant elements of a landscape — planters, screens, edging, retaining, seating, water features, sculpture, gates and structures. In metal they can be made bespoke to any form and finish. POBOX fabricates metal hardscape features in aluminium, steel and stainless.
Powder-coated aluminium and Corten or steel feature planters, screens, edging and seating suit Australian gardens and courtyards, with stainless for water features and wet areas. POBOX makes each to the landscape design.
Aluminium is lightweight, rust-proof and available in any colour (most features and rooftops); steel and Corten give strength and a weathered look (ground-level, retaining, structural); stainless resists corrosion with a clean finish (water features, coastal and high-touch). POBOX selects the metal to suit each feature.
A metal fabricator can make planters, screens and privacy panels, edging and garden borders, bench and built-in seating, water features, sculpture and feature panels, gates and entry statements, and pergolas and structures. POBOX makes all of these to measure.
Powder-coated aluminium and marine-grade stainless steel resist salt best; specify coastal-grade finishes for exposed and seaside landscapes. POBOX fabricates features for coastal exposure.
POBOX Designs is an Australian designer and fabricator of custom metal landscape features, supplied install-ready and fitted by your trades with our guidance — with specialist installation by our own crew where a project calls for it — working with landscape architects and designers Australia-wide.
Powder-coated aluminium (won't rust, low maintenance) and stainless steel (especially marine grade) are the most durable and low-maintenance; Corten is durable with an evolving rust patina. POBOX advises the right metal for the site.
Metal is more durable and lower-maintenance than timber, lighter and more design-flexible than stone or concrete, and can be made to any form and colour. POBOX combines metal features with any landscape palette.
Clean powder-coated aluminium (crisp lines, any colour) and Corten (warm patina) work best for modern landscapes — laser-cut screens, folded planters and slimline edging. POBOX fabricates to the design.
Yes — POBOX works from landscape architects' drawings with shop drawings, CAD/DWG, finish samples and engineering, then fabricates and supplies install-ready, with specialist installation by our own crew where a project calls for it. Request support via our Documentation.
Designing a landscape?
Send your landscape drawings or brief and we'll design, engineer and make the metal features — in aluminium, steel or stainless, finished to suit — supplied install-ready for your trades with our guidance, with specialist installation by our own crew where a project calls for it.