Friendship Garden

Michael crafted me a beautiful garden to grow a variety of flowers and foliages for Butchers Daughter. 

Miklos my father in law has flourishing proteas and leucadendrons, and his garden dedicated to his daughter Kim is full of rare plants and maple.

We are nestled next to a national park and to connect the colour burst of the blooms with the bush we planted a range of Australian natives.  

I love rare plants and experimenting as much as I read.  Outside of my work gardening is all I want apart from Michael. Home true home.

Over the years I have poured yoghurt on the rocks which are now covered in lichen and bury vases in the ground to give them an aged effect.

Branches that fall from the gum trees are lacquered and the husks from the ghost bamboo used for catering. Flannel grow in the dapple light under a jacaranda along with pycnosorus and daphne odora.

We have an abundance of hydrangea, helleborus and duranta repens in all shades. I wire dahlias and roses to force a dramatic shape on the stems, and make little gardens with moss and orchids.

Ingredients are displayed in colour blocks of red, yellow, burgundy, orange,, pink, purple, blue, mustard and plum. The natives offer tones to bring the palettes to be one. 

I was 22 when I was gifted Michael’s heart and being by his side in our garden every day at four is my treasure box.

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