Some gardens invite you to slow down. Others ask you to wander.
The Wild Cottage Garden does both.
This garden was designed to soften, disrupt, and challenge. Set against the backdrop of stark modern architecture, its purpose was to introduce a sense of wildness, a rewilding of the senses, through layered planting, unexpected textures, and bold seasonal shifts.
We leaned into a palette that celebrated movement and natural rhythm:
Stachys, salvias, buddleias, eremophilas, sedum, and sweeping ornamental grasses. Plants that hum with pollinators and sway in the breeze. Plants that meander, and mingle. There’s a freedom in letting go of control and that’s exactly what this garden does. It refuses to be overly neat or sterile. Instead, it offers a layered story one of growth, collapse, and return.
This garden pushes back against the trend of rigidity and order. It brings in the romance of the cottage garden and blends it with native resilience and wild expression. It’s a nod to exoticism traditions but deeply grounded in our Australian landscape.
The result is a space that feels lived-in, loved, and deeply alive.
— Gardener & Son
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