Australian Country

the art of gardening

A funny thing happened on the way to the white-goods store. When Blue Mountains artist and counsellor Jennifer Edwards and her builder partner Peter Kube's fridge died in 2017, they headed to Lithgow to buy a new one. As Jennifer tells the story, they came home having bought Hartvale, a five-acre (two-hectare) property near the historic NSW village of Hartley.

“Pete had some errands to run, so he dropped me off near Harvey Norman,” Jennifer recalls. “We were living on an

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