Danny and Carmel

Limited wheelchair access, No Dogs

Located: Hinton

Carved out of a cow paddock our garden was started when we were still working and so developed slowly over a period of 23 years. It is an ever changing environment depending on droughts or flooding rains, or whims. The last being a drought where we lost some precious plants.

We have many varied interests and so the garden doesn’t follow a single theme. Besides a general out line we have been influenced by our childhood, our love of the natural and a touch of the exotic.

As a child growing up I used to take the ducks to the yellow water hole after school to give them a swim. This has been reproduced (with the use of artistic licence)in Cowra gold pebbles. I developed a love of the outdoors from mum and so have constructed many fish ponds and again with artistic licence, a reproduction of the creek that flowed through our property with platypus in it.

We enjoy our privacy and have enclosed a significant part of our acre with a four metre high muryah hedge and a variety of both native and exotic trees and shrubs. The many grevilleas that we have planted create very much a bird loving attraction.

Rainforests have a special attraction for us and so under the canopy of tree ferns and trees we have planed a variety of ferns and lillies including the rock lillie’s that we loved so much that were on my grandfathers property at ’home’.

At the back of our garage we have created a fernery, again with a small fish pond.

Our travels have been an inspiration for certain features of the garden and we have created a rather small Japanese garden with a weeping cherry tree and raked, again, Cowra gold pebbles.

Morocco and Spain were the inspiration for our elevated egret (not cranes) nests to add interest to the garden. The egrets like our fish and so the image is appropriate to our ponds.

Our orchard of six trees supply us with the joy of picking some of our own fruit and the gift of a pineapple from Queensland has started the supply of home grown pineapples, so sweet.

Some plants are gifts from the birds and if we like them we let them grow, it adds variety.
Roses, pots as features and for plants are also included in our eclectic garden.