This owner of this garden was keenly raking together ideas for her new backyard when she had an epiphany. “Coming across [Dutch designer] Piet Oudolf’s gardens was my aha moment,” she says. “The grasses, the colours, the movement and the way that the light plays with the plants –his designs are all so beautiful.” That pivotal moment would sow the seeds for her lush and hardy haven on Sydney’s north shore, which confidently defies the usual hard-edged pool-garden look.
When she and her husband bought the home in 2014, they found a generous, north-facing rear garden with a sprawling lawn on which to kick a football and play cricket – ideal for their three young children. But that’s where the positives ended. While a mature cherry tree provided generous shade, it…
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Inside Out (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2020