General News
19 November, 2023
Yukkas make way for rustic recycled garden
A WILD, overgrown space has evolved into a rustic country garden highlighted with rural history. Michelle Nevins has spent the past four years removing yukkas and taming trees and shrubs, adding her own touches to the garden and entertaining space...
A WILD, overgrown space has evolved into a rustic country garden highlighted with rural history.
Michelle Nevins has spent the past four years removing yukkas and taming trees and shrubs, adding her own touches to the garden and entertaining space at the family home between Bridgewater and Inglewood.
One of four gardens part of the Bridgewater Garden Club’s open day, Michelle said she had focussed on natives and roses, planted in new garden beds edged in recycled timber.
Michelle has added old farming implements and Furphy tanks in shaping the garden.
“I do little sections at a time. Once an area looks good, I move on and start the next,” she said. “Everything is recycled .... the timber, bricks and the rocks in the feature wall.
“The garden has certainly evolved from the wild, overgrown space that it was four years ago.”
Garden club secretary Jenny Hosking said people had come from across the Loddon Shire and surrounding areas for the open day.
Other gardens on public display were in Bridgewater where Robert Scholes and Roberta Foster welcomed visitors to their low-maintenance garden including native and indigenous plants and Ken and Ursula Nott in Inglewood whose garden is full of spring colour and roses.