House, meet garden: Eden's 1,600 plants

House, meet garden.

House meet garden, you'll be best friends. We wanted a garden that sat with the home, could be viewed from every room and had outdoor rooms to enjoy. Placing 1,600 perennials by hand was a lot of fun and very hard work, and the garden is mature now, coming back fuller every year. The hedge minds the privacy, the reserve lends the views and long lunches happen on the travertine patio.

EDEN

07/03/2026

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Modern pavilion with charcoal cladding overlooks native grasses and recycled brick retaining walls in terraced garden.

A new garden spends its first years catching up. Eden's has done that work already: 1,600 plants, most of them perennial, across 424 square metres of beds, mature now and coming back fuller each year.Building it was a project in its own right. Beds cut and shaped, the curved brick wall holding the slope back, drip irrigation plumbed to the buried tank. Then the part we remember: 1,600 plants placed by hand, one at a time. A lot of fun and very hard work, in about equal measure.The thinking went like this. It's a large site to maintain, so we wanted a garden that sat with the home, gave views from every room, and had outdoor rooms to enjoy. Perennials carry most of it: they come back fuller every year without being asked. The drip line on a timer does the watering, the Canberra turf shrugs off a Bundanoon winter, and the Silver Sheen hedge is mature enough now to handle the privacy. The riparian reserve behind supplies the borrowed views. We take full credit for those.The outdoor rooms came good. The travertine patio off the side holds the dining table and the long lunches. The tallowwood deck out the back sits in the thick of the garden, the reserve right behind it. Between them, the dining room may struggle for bookings.It's the part of the place we're most attached to. A house is finished the day it's built. A garden only gets better.

A house is finished the day it is built. A garden only gets better.

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