Kangaroo Valley Farmhouse
A 1920s farmhouse garden replanted to read as a working country garden again — orchard, kitchen beds, and a meadow approach to the dam.
A 1920s farmhouse garden replanted to read as a working country garden again — orchard, kitchen beds, and a meadow approach to the dam.
The bones were all there: an old pencil-pine avenue along the drive, a stone-walled kitchen garden, three remnant fruit trees, and a clear sight line down to a small dam. The job was to set them back in conversation.
We replanted the orchard with eight heritage stone-fruit varieties, rebuilt the kitchen beds with new perimeter paths, and let the slope down to the dam revert to a managed meadow of native grasses cut twice a year. The drive avenue was extended by twelve new pencil pines selected to match the canopy of the existing ones in roughly forty years' time.
A garden like this is a forty-year project handed off in stages. We documented it carefully so that the next custodians can read what we did and why.
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