Gardening Australia Feature

I think that it's sort of like a comfortable style, so more a feeling rather than a look. It's a nice way of putting. I like gardens that just feel natural, that make you feel good to be in, rather than impressing everybody.

My own garden is really just like a, it's my life over 30 years. So it's a little bit like looking at an old photograph album. I like the idea of gardening photographing because you've lived in different spaces, you've done different things, and over time, well imagine, you know, it started off with nothing and now it's sort of like this big mature garden that I could never afford or never find in the first place.

We dug the dam ourselves, so originally it was just a bare shell, and then I planted this little cluster of Verbalis on it, and then my son used to walk around with me, I'd be holding his hand every morning, they'd grab hold of these seeds and he'd throw them in the water, so they floated all the way around the edge and just spilled it all up, so now they hide the bare banks so there's no erosion of the banks here at all.

These ones have gone in as tubes, the Bunya just went in sort of as a waist-high tree. Not all the trees that are here, every single thing except for the Scribbly Gums I put in myself.

It's probably one of my favorite areas. So this one always sort of changes, so depending on what time of year, in winter it's totally chopped down to the ground. This is a really up and down garden, so depending on what time of year you come, it might be in flower, might be deciduous, might be all gone and brown.

I love pomegranates, so all over the garden. These ones are really sort of special super dwarf ones, so you get to this point here and I can see the front door, but it's beautifully framed by these massive Gymea Lilies. The Gymea Lilies are for our local flower, so I thought these are cooked sensational here just because they seem to hold it all together. And that vertical is always sort of lovely to use in an entry, it seems to draw your attention. But for all the formality, I love the way that you can just leave these Davidson's Plums be what they are and and jump out. I think that's sort of a secretive garden, just leaving something to do their own thing, you know, just allowing them to be them.