GRAND DESIGNS

As the 19th-century Canadian farmer Nelson Henderson observed, the true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. And so it was for pioneering pastoralist and winemaker Frank Charles Lewin, who in the 1870s established a park-like garden on the property his father owned a few kilometres from Inverell in northwestern NSW.

Frank came to Australia from England with his parents in 1854 and seven years later, accompanied his family on the arduous