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The front garden

11/9/2014

These are areas of the front garden, which is magnificent.

The tree with the branch recently sawn is a grey box, which is indigenous to the area and could be a few hundred years old. The other big trees were planted by early owners of the house.

The rest was established by volunteers.

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Beaumont House is a South Australian National Trust home built in 1839. I used to walk past the place often and think to myself that someone ought to do something about the garden.

In my head I shifted plants and weeded and plotted. I did that for a lot of the gardens I walked past but those gardens were owned by people and I couldn't weed for them. Or, I wouldn't.

Anyway, I finally plucked up the courage to send a design plan for the part of the garden I could see from the outside boundary. I eventually got an email answer telling me I was welcome to join the garden volunteers and start working on my plan.

I have taken various before and after photos in the past year. This garden, like all gardens, is an ongoing project.

Virginia Taylor - Author

The front garden