As you walk around the side of the house a most unexpected vista awaits, a lake surrounded by trees and shrubs serving as a haven for the many wetland birds that frequent the lake.  Over the last 20 years, several thousand trees and shrubs have been planted, transforming it from an overgrazed sheep farm with a [...]

Tanglewood is a 2-acre rural property which has unfolded over 25 years from a bare grazing paddock, through dense planting of deciduous and native trees, shrubs and groundcovers, to a place of productivity, sanctuary and beauty. The productivity includes an enclosed orchard where chooks and ducks waddle, quack and chirp to their hearts’ content; multiple vegetable [...]

Step into the Healing Garden, a vibrant sanctuary on a sloping block, lovingly created just four years ago. Overflowing with hundreds of locally sourced native plants, it’s a space of resilience, regeneration, and natural restoration. Designed with water-wise principles, it features dry river beds, frog ponds, native habitats, composts, worm farms and 3D-printed bird boxes. Striking [...]

This garden was recently redesigned and landscaped, retaining a large boundary hedge, along with productive olive and fig trees. While professionally designed and landscaped with low stone walls, paths and a pond, the plant mad owner planted out the garden with a wide variety of predominantly herbaceous perennials, many originating from dry parts of Europe and [...]