Gardens Illustrated Magazine (UK)
Wildcoast Garden ‘Led by the Land’
Words by Natasha Goodfellow / Photographs by Will Salter
The southern point of the Mornington Peninsula outside Melbourne, Australia, is a landscape of two halves. The inner shore, on Port Phillip Bay, is calm and sheltered, a place of holidaymakers and sun-seekers. The outer coast is a different beast entirely. The site of former Australian prime minister Harold Holt’s drowning in 1967, and bordering the infamous, shipwreck-strewn Bass Strait, this is a much harsher environment where storm-force, salt-laden winds can blow for days and where summer temperatures regularly top 40°C. It is, as landscape designer Sam Cox says, “a tough place to be a plant”, meaning that plant selection for this garden, which sits high in the dunes there, was more vital than for most.
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Atlas of memory: Gordon Ford’s natural Australian garden
With a career spanning six decades, Gordon Ford was a grand master of the Australian natural garden. Briony Downes looks at the key elements of his practice and how a new exhibition sheds light on his enduring legacy.
Sam chats with Jonathan Green on ABC Radio National
Tune in to my conversation with Jonathan Green on Blueprint for Living. Jonathan came to visit our garden on a cold day in winter... and we chatted about Gordon Ford, naturalistic design, creating habitat with understory and other topics.
Open source: Butterfly habitat roof garden
Woodleigh School pushes the boundaries in its commitment to bringing nature close to classroom spaces and throughout its extensive grounds. Our latest contribution to their endeavour is around the Year 10 Futures Studio project – an extension to the Senior Campus in Langwarrin South. It includes a butterfly habitat roof garden design we have developed in collaboration with Joost Bakker. We are offering the details of the project in an open source document.