A TALL TALE
PERCHED GAMELY ON THE EDGE of the forest, above a no-through gravel road, Ray Brodie Cottage has something of the fairytale about it. Koalas doze in the stringybarks, black cockatoos beat by in formation, sounding their sad cries, and in the gully below the house, old camellias pop budding branches above rampaging blackberry.
The 1868 house and garden have only recently been wrested back from the bush by Brenton and Libby Roberts, who live here with their three children, Lachlan, Maya and little Billy, and rescue kelpie Thorby. In a short space of time the young couple have created a lovely country garden that sets relaxed planting in free-flowing ‘borders’ within a classical framework, and all on a
