A Coastal Garden: by Fiona Brockhoff...it comes with a house too!

Swept by the wild winds of the Mornington Peninsula,
this grey foliaged garden,
by local landscape designer Fiona Brockhoff,
is a picture of rugged beauty.

The house is all but hidden behind the garden.

Fencing posts repeat the same driftwood texture & tones
of the wind-curled branches of the trees.

One of Brockhoff's mantras is to use local plantings wherever possible.

When you have this glorious Moondah, 

or coastal ti-tree,

growing in the dunes all around,

there is plenty of inspiration.

The house has been built to face a golf course.

Luxury, huh?

It seems the landscape influenced the interior too,

with the same colours & organic textures repeated inside.

But a red door marks itself as a sentinel to the front entrance.

"Here I am," it says.

(The house was designed by Space Design Group.)

And always that incredible view...

of sweeping hills & wind-swept drama.

The perfect place to unwind,

which, after all,

is the whole point of a beach house.

Would you like to holiday/live here?

Property: 4 Meredith Place, Portsea

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