Avalon Clifftop
A clifftop garden on the northern beaches reshaped around the existing angophora canopy, with a single grass terrace stepping toward the cliff edge.
A clifftop garden on the northern beaches reshaped around the existing angophora canopy, with a single grass terrace stepping toward the cliff edge.
The site came to us with a magnificent angophora costata in the middle of what the previous owners had treated as a problem. The first design move was to keep the tree and rebuild the garden around it.
We pulled back a tangle of weed lantana and overgrown agapanthus, laid a single soft-grass terrace down toward the cliff edge, and replanted in concentric bands of coastal natives that read as the wild bush gradually settling into garden as you walk up toward the house. The angophora is the only specimen tree on the site; everything else is held below knee height so the trunk reads as a sculpture.
The clients told us the brief was "a garden you could fall asleep in." Two summers in, they have.
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