HEART & HOME
Garden Dreams – A Photo Journal
At Bank House, our garden is gently evolving. It’s a quiet conversation with the land, guided by patience, reflection and the rhythm of seasons. We’re carefully tracing the lines of the old garden, softening contours, layering colours and textures and imagining what it will become. It’s a deliberate, whispered dialogue between us, the earth, the stories of this place and the surrounding bushland. Here’s a short photo journal to share our progress and dreams. Let’s begin with winter...
A view of the original terraced garden at Bank House in 1880. There was a large vegetable garden which supplied the original general store with terraces made of local stone leading to the ‘folly' top right.
Our current tiny vege patch to keep us in greens until we reinstate the large raised garden beds.
You can just see the faint outline of the original terraces. At some point, they were pulled out to make way for horse paddocks.
A view of Bank House and garden in 1927, rock terraces just showing in the middle.
The new planting guide includes underplanting the existing silver birch with shade plants and scented borders in a colour scheme of green, silver, mauves, cream, apricot and white.
We’ve removed the bright white existing gravel and replace it with a new gravel to complement the warm tones of the heritage Bathurst brick buildings.
Breathing new life into the scullery by digging away the soil from the back of the scullery and applying a poultice to draw out moisture and salts from the brickwork.
Sorting local stone to form new walls (and replacing the unattractive keystone).
