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HGGARDENING

150 | AUSTRALIAN HOUSE & GARDEN

Illustration by Allison Langton.

Hugh’s tips for creating

a new garden for a

heritage home:

✚Create harmony between

the home and garden by

considering the home’s

proportions and scale.

The beauty of working

with older homes is their

lovely proportions – the

high ceilings, deep

verandahs and generous

setbacks. Allow the garden

design to reflect and

respond to these qualities.

✚Use materials or finishes

that reference existing

elements of the home and

surrounds. For example,

I recycled the sandstone

from the home’s footings

to build the bench seat in

the rear garden, and used

sandstone steppers down

the side path. This will

result in a cohesive

finished garden that

feels like it belongs

in its surroundings.

✚Consider the interior of

the home, the purpose

of the rooms and mood.

Then think about the views

from the windows of

these rooms and create

a connection.

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1 House

2 Cardamom

ginger, gardenia,

Japanese box

3 Driveway

4 Side path

5 Pool

6 Lawn

7 Existing

frangipani and

jacaranda

8 Pergola

AA pink flower spike of foxglove

among theGardenia‘Florida’.

BHugh replaced the old concrete

driveway with recycled bricks.

“They echo the pattern of the existing

tessellated front path,” he says.

The bed ofGardenia‘Florida’ is

outlined with Japanese box.

CThe side path features sandstone

flagging fringed withViola odorata,

lacecap hydrangea and a row of

Camellia sasanqua‘Setsugekka’.

DAhedgeofElaeagnusmacrophylla

(autumn olive) forms the front fence.

The low hedge is Japanese box.

Thestreetislinedwithmature

camphor laurel trees. #