Australian Country

Botanical buddies

Musgrave have developed a blossoming creative collaboration.

Away from city madness in a pocket of the Southern Highlands known as Wildes Meadow sits a five-acre (two-heactare) patch of idyllic cultivation. Botanical artist Elaine Musgrave and her horticulturist husband, Les, purchased The Kaya more than 12 years ago and have since imprinted their lives on the gently rolling landscape. Les spends his days working in the extensive gardens, while Elaine retreats to her studio, a converted stable

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