Australian Country Homes

A NATURAL HIGH

A passion for gardening is practically in the DNA of Jan Owens, who has devoted the better part of the past decade to transforming a bare paddock into a showpiece garden at Willawa, the property she shares with her husband, Arthur, near Jindabyne in the NSW Snowy Mountains.

Jan’s earliest childhood memories are peppered with experiences in her grandparents’ gardens ... helping grandfather Eric store the dahlia tubers under the house for next year’s season, running up the backyard to grandmother Nell’s very own Mr McGregor’s garden ... and her parents continued the tradition.

“Growing up at Corowa in the Upper Murray the first thing we did when we arrived

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