grass house

Seemingly spontaneous and the natural offshoot of its seaside setting, this garden on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula belies the tricky challenges it presented its designer, Andy Murray. While serene and seductive for the owner’s friends and family, their pets and the local fauna that now call it home, it was not always so.

When Hilary Dixon bought the rambling 1000-square-metre property as a weekender in 2015, it was occupied by a two storey fibro home, with sprawling lawns ringed by a jumble