IN BRIEF
What Naturalistic family garden.
Where Victoria, Australia.
Size Two-and-a-half-acre garden in a six-acre site.
Soil Slightly clay loam.
Climate Extremes in both winter (down
to -10ºC) and summer (up to 45ºC).
Hardiness zone USDA 9a.
When you’re in the garden, you’re completely immersed and floating. As you move through it you can’t help but be drawn close to the amazing details in the plants
Gertrude Jekyll, the queen of the blazing border, wrote: ‘Planting ground is painting a landscape with living things’. Like Jekyll, Australian artist and garden designer Ralph Bristow gardens as
