The 19th-century garden at Bronte House was one of NSW’s most exceptional. Now in the care of the aptly named van der Gardners, its future is back on track.
"You have to throw yourself into a garden like this,” says Anna van der Gardner, current tenant of Bronte House with her husband Wes and two daughters. This is a serious gardener’s garden, full of history and rare plants, on a vast scale. “It is a big responsibility,” she says. “But we feel it responds to the love and care we give it.”
Covering two acres (0.8ha), the garden rambles across a gully close to Bronte Beach, protected by some of the original trees planted by Georgiana Lowe, the first homeowner, in the 1840s. Leo Schofield made the garden great again during his 10-year lease from 1994, working with designer Myles Baldwin.
This story is from the September 2017 edition of Australian House & Garden Magazine.
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