VINTAGE VALOUR
Like any true gardener, Steven Clegg’s knowledge and love of plants is deeply rooted in the soils and landscapes of his childhood. He recalls with fondness tinkering in his grandmother’s garden in the countryside of south-east Queensland as a young boy, digging around the flowers and fruits, the roses and hydrangeas, and purchasing seedlings wrapped in damp newspaper. A vegetable patch was par for the course for him as a teenager, and at home he took over the family garden and became an industrious potter of plants, seeking his goods at far-flung nurseries and garden shows.
“You can’t be a landscape designer
