The front garden of Simon’s home boasts plantings of Stipa gigantea, Melianthus major, Phormium colensoi and Miscanthus transmorrisonensis, as well as a Cupressus sempervirens ‘Glauca’ pencil pine tree.
When gardener Simon Rickard first stumbled across a bare, rectangular pasture in Trentham, central Victoria, he knew he had uncovered the ideal place to lay down his roots. “Everything was green and cool – up in the clouds, it seemed,” says Simon.
However, after telling the estate agent that he was after a place with room to grow, his very literal request was met with some confusion.“The agent asked me what I was looking for,” he recalls. “Bricks and mortar? Somewhere for the kids to run around? As a gardener, I had some very different priorities and replied, ‘Actually, I’m looking for a north-facing site with basaltic loam soil’. That totally stumped him.”
A decade later, the plot sings with lush thickets, exotic natives and floods of rich foliage. “I’m definitely a ‘more is more’ kind of gardener,” says Simon, who moved his 1930s weatherboard California bungalow from Melbourne’s north-west suburbs to the town, which lies 700 metres above sea level. “Living in such an unusual climate for Australia, I had to do a lot of experimenting to see what would work. In many ways, I suppose my garden is a sandbox for my experiments in plants and plant design combinations.”
この記事は Home Beautiful の January 2022 版に掲載されています。
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この記事は Home Beautiful の January 2022 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、8,500 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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