A Florist’s Lush Inner City Garden

Florist Sean Cook, of Mr Cook, has lived a long love affair with plants! Only two years ago, Sean’s Sydney garden was a trashed construction site, but it’s been transformed by famed landscape designer Richard Unsworth. Today, despite it’s small size, this is a lush outdoor sanctuary with a brilliant sense of energy and drama. ‘It’s all a bit wild, and crazy and generous,’ Sean says. A great example of the value of creating an oasis of green in the inner city!

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Jenny Rose Innes, Serial Renovator And Garden Maker

Jenny Rose-Innes is a ‘serial renovator and garden maker’, who has been building houses and gardens for over 40 years! Her latest creation in the Southern Highland town of Bowral is a testament to her many years of experience and vast gardening know-how. It’s full and voluptuous… and only four years old!

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A Verdant Garden In Fitzroy North

In 2013, which feels like approximately 200 years ago, we featured the stunning North Fitzroy home of real estate agent Peter Stephens, and metalworker Anna Charlesworth. This year, we ventured back for a closer look at the couple’s beautiful and insanely lush inner city garden, created by landscape designer Amanda Oliver.

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The Bondi Garden Of Landscape Designer William Dangar

The lush, relaxed Sydney garden of landscape designer William Dangar was a hugely popular one this year – and it certainly exemplifies his expertise and passion for plant life!

Will’s garden, like the man himself, is no-nonsense. It’s striking – with clumps of foliage plants like Fatsia japonica, berberis, Japanese blood grass and the ever-clumpy Zoysia tenuifolia – and the details are impeccable.

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Sunnymeade

Sunnymeade is an expertly landscaped property in Anglesea, belonging to Peter and Simone Shaw of Ocean Road Landscaping. Its centrepiece, of course, is that incredible sculptural lawn – what a showstopper! Framed by the incredible beauty of the old stringybark trees, this garden is sensitive, grounded and incredibly beautiful.

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Heronswood House + Garden

The INCREDIBLE gardens at Heronswood on the Mornington Peninsula need to be seen to be believed! This magical garden belongs to Clive and Penny Blazey, founders of the Diggers Club, Australia’s largest gardening club, with over 75,000 members.

Here, Clive, Penny and their team have preserved and cultivated an astounding abundance of rare plants and heirloom seeds over the past 40 years.

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Bill Henson’s Post-Industrial Walled Garden

We were more than a little starstruck to feature the Melbourne garden of Bill Henson earlier this year, courtesy of our garden’s columnist Georgina Reid.

For Georgina, Bill Henson was a surprise. ‘I had been told he had a good garden, but I had no idea of the depth of his obsession. I presumed art had a controlling hand over Bill’s heart, but I was wrong. He’s a very serious garden maker, garden lover and garden thinker.’

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Our tour of Bill Henson’s garden is an extract from Georgina’s book, The Planthunter: Truth, Beauty, Chaos and Plants

A Perfect Family Garden In Camberwell

Ian and his team at Ian Barker Gardens were engaged by the owners of this garden, surrounding a gorgeous old home in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell, to design and build a garden for their large family in 2015.

Responding to new additions to this gorgeous old home by architects Herbert and Howes, the garden’s lines are simple and elegant. ‘We really toned down the garden,’ Ian says. ‘It’s restrained, yet it has a huge impact.’ Part of the success of the garden, according to Ian, is its relationship with the architecture. ‘Without the backdrop of the pavilion, the garden wouldn’t look anywhere near as good as it does today’, he says.

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