Summer holidays spent in the boathouse of this retreat poised on the edge of Pittwater, NSW, sowed the seeds of a decades-long love affair for landscape designer Richard Unsworth. Evocatively named Trincomalee, it was then owned by the mother of a close friend and, freshly arrived from the UK in the 1990s, he visited every year to soak up the spirit of his adopted country.
“It’s magical,” says Richard, founder of landscape firm Garden Life.