2019-12-01_Australian_House_Garden

ThisgardenonVictoria’s Mornington Peninsula, designed

byFionaBrockhoff, takes cues from nature to produce

a beachybackyard that has something for everyone.

STORYJane Rowley | PHOTOGRAPHY Kelly Gardener

BE ACH BE AU T Y

158 | AUSTRALIAN HOUSE & GARDEN

H G GARDENS

Intriguing and hardy plants populate the
garden. Growing at the corner of the patio
is lobe-leafed rice-paper tree (Tetrapanax
papyrifer). OPPOSITE The windswept form
of a native Melaleuca armillaris underplanted
with clipped Westringia fruticosa, Dianella
brevicaulis and Phormium spp.