Founded on field observation
Swirlremeg began in 2014 when landscape stylist Mira Koller left a municipal parks bureau to pursue private gardens with more editorial control. Her first commissions were narrow townhouse plots in Geidorf where drainage and shade demanded inventive layering rather than textbook perennial beds.
The studio name references the spiral paths Mira sketches on hillside sites—routes that slow movement and reveal views in sequence. Today four stylists work from our Herrengasse atelier, each specialising in either residential, commercial, or planting documentation.
Philosophy of restraint
We believe a garden should feel generous without becoming noisy. That means limiting palette size, repeating forms at different scales, and leaving voids where gravel or mown grass provides visual rest. Clients often arrive with long plant wish lists; we edit collaboratively until the scheme reads as one voice.
Our drawings emphasise human scale: seat heights, path widths, and sight lines from key windows. Technical sheets follow, but the emotional brief always leads. If a terrace cannot host six guests comfortably, we resize before specifying furniture.
Local craft partnerships
Stone setters, irrigation technicians, and arborists across Styria know our annotation style, which reduces miscommunication on site. We do not markup contractor invoices; instead we remain available for clarification calls during installation at €95 per hour when requested.
Material samples—paving, timber, planter finishes—are stored in our ground-floor room and lent to clients for two-week home trials. This tactile step prevents costly reordering when a grey basalt reads too cold against a rendered façade.
Education and outreach
Each spring we host two public walks through private gardens we styled, ticketed at €18 to benefit urban tree planting in Graz. Notes from these tours inform our blog-style mailings, though we maintain no social analytics or tracking pixels on this website.
Internships last six months and focus on surveying, ink drawing, and nursery negotiation. We accept one intern per year; enquiries should include a hand-drawn plan of any outdoor space you have studied.
Looking ahead
Climate shifts are pushing us toward deeper soil preparation and species trials at higher elevations. A small test plot near Semriach lets us observe drought tolerance over three-year cycles before recommending plants to clients in similar exposures.
We remain a styling studio, not a maintenance franchise. Long-term care stays with owners or their chosen gardeners, supported by our seasonal notes and optional refresh visits documented elsewhere on this site.