Centennial Park Residence
A Federation residence garden returning to a period-appropriate planting palette — a deep front garden, a side path, and a long rear lawn.
A Federation residence garden returning to a period-appropriate planting palette — a deep front garden, a side path, and a long rear lawn.
The house is one of a Federation row that faces directly onto the park. The previous garden had drifted into something almost suburban — clipped lilly pillies, a wide brick driveway, a small lawn. The owners wanted it to belong to its century again.
We pulled out the driveway entirely, reinstated a generous front garden with period planting that nods to the public Moreton Bays in the park behind it, and rebuilt the rear as a single long lawn flanked by deep mixed borders. A new side path of tessellated tile picks up directly from the original entry.
The right kind of restoration is rarely literal. We worked from photographs of the period but allowed ourselves to translate — the planting is what 1908 would have been if it had access to the cultivars we have now.
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