The prelude to this post is yet another confession of obliviousness to what’s on my doorstep. For ten years, Kelly Kershaw has been creating a garden on the outskirts of Bodalla, open at weekends, and I’ve only just registered it. On a warm Sunday morning, my last in Australia for a year, I finally went down the rutted track off the highway to visit. I had a long yarn to Kelly who gave me a graphic account of her surprise when she won the golden spade award from Gardening Australia and of the slow development of the garden and the bed and breakfast. She told me that the garden itself would guide me on the circuit around it as indeed it did.
The delights were many as I proceeded through the twelve hedge-created rooms, with far prospects over farmland and out to the mountains, and near prospects of the garden itself. Espaliered fruit trees; a small orchard of fig trees, all from the same parent; ceramic bowls of water; rusty iron butterflies and rabbits; old timber transformed; rock features; and a number of garden nooks with charming seats. The flowers were past their best as autumn encroaches. I’ll visit again in spring 2017.
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Is that a Husky pup? Or am I misinterpreting some Australian breed, filtered through the breeds I know here?
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Could well be a husky, although I don’t know how it’d enjoy our summers! I had a friend who raced huskies in Canberra once upon a time.
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… and now you are coming to see European spring. Beautifully presented garden, Meg. Looks like a cool place to hang about.
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High noon is probably not the best time to photograph, but I wanted to see it before I left.
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I love the poppy seed heads and the pear cairn. Very organic and so right for a garden. Happy travels, but sad for myself.
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How could I have missed the fact that it’s a pear? It stunningly obvious now!
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Beautiful and beautifully captured and presented. How lovely. The sculptures are fabulous, love the one with the trio of balls on top. I didn’t realize you were going for a year!?! Oh my gosh, that’s amazing. I can’t wait to see your trip through your lens and your poetic words.
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I indulge in a bit of blog-migration at this point. This one hibernates for a year and I reappear on 12monthsinwarsaw.wordpress.com from Saturday. I’d love it if you migrated with me.
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Of course I will, can’t wait!
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Just in the nick of time, Meg! Isn’t it glorious? I absolutely love that triptych of the vase! 🙂 And yes- some joy to come home to. 🙂 Safe travels, sweetheart!
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My type of garden Meg, rustic, charming obviously created with love and an eye to detail and lots of hard work. I love how you took us on a wander around through the different “rooms” focusing on the details, the rusty sculptures, that slate obelisk and pottery/fountain(?) then glancing over to the distant hills before showing close ups of some of the flowers. Pure delight, I would love to see it for myself.
I’ll wish you a safe journey over to your second home and will tune in when you get there. What will you be calling your new Poland blog?
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12monthsinwarsaw.wordpress.com will go live on Saturday – if all goes according to plan!
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I’ll be waiting.
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Wow, it’s simple stunning and only ten years old, what a masterpiece. I always admire people with the vision to create a garden on this scale and this one is perfect. I love all the sculptural details and the water feature waiting to be turned on. The cairn thingy is fab and wow to the planting. Just think how much it will develop in the year you’re away!
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Something to look forward to in my Australian spring. I’m so glad you enjoyed walking around it with me. Wish I’d known it was here when Jude visited. An Australian friend doesn’t like it – too hedged in and there should be more natives.
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Funny you should say that Meg. I was thinking that it could almost be here in England with the neat formal hedges, the rooms, even the flowers. I love the rusty sculptures and the bowl of water. My new garden is tiny in comparison and I think it will be more New Zealand / South African style than English country garden. We shall see…
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Can’t wait to see your whole new environment.
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