Australian Country

Grand-scale gardening

Wayne Keating spent his childhood holidays accompanying his father on work trips building concrete bridges. So he felt right at home when it came to the large-scale structural works required for the garden he and his wife, Diane, have transformed at Olinda in the Dandenong Ranges.

“A typical trip with Dad would be spent living in tents or Masonite huts on a construction camp,” he recalls. “If he were alive to see what we have done, I think he might have been a bit jealous as we

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