This Sorrento sandy underfoot home speaks to the native Moonah surrounds.
The garden takes its design cues from the Moonah trees, brash Ti-tree, and dramatic dune-like landforms all indigenous to the site.
The steepness of the block is the stand out feature, the contrast and challenge.
Chunks of salvaged local pier sleepers retain pedestrian paths and create steps catering for the incline.
Local natives; Westringia and Correa Alba are loosely clipped for rhythm. Poa; feathery native grasses are used for softness. Drifts of sprawling Myoporium provide mass of brilliant colour for a steep dramatic effect.
This garden is a testament to it being both messy and neat. Clipped native forms set beside a tangle of shrubs. Exposed trunks, aged and twisted forms paired with fresh new planting. Neatly mowed and tamed lawn areas set against busy garden beds of native flowering grasses and wild native ground covers.
The Moonah trunks were uplifted for dual purpose; to generate more light for underplanting parings and but also to become the visual hero of the native scape. The stark trunk forms, gnarled and twisted balance the sharp architecture of clean lines.
