Southern Highlands Estate
A working-farm estate where the immediate garden gives way, through three planted thresholds, to the surrounding cool-climate pasture.
A working-farm estate where the immediate garden gives way, through three planted thresholds, to the surrounding cool-climate pasture.
The brief was to make twelve acres feel like a single, considered composition without civilising the country it sits in. The clients are gardeners themselves and wanted a landscape that would carry them through forty years.
The immediate garden around the homestead reads as a generous English-influenced perennial garden — deep mixed borders, a kitchen garden with espaliered fruit, and a single specimen oak in the centre lawn. From there we drew a sequence of three planted thresholds: a clipped-hedge transition, a meadow band, and a final fence-line of eucalypts that quietly hands the eye back to the paddock.
The build took twenty-two months across two seasons. The clients laid every step of brick path themselves, on weekends, alongside our team — a detail they asked us to preserve in writing.
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