For owners Kylie and Nathan, this award-winning garden on Sydney’s Lower North Shore takes outdoor entertaining to new heights. Responding to the steep site, Fifth Season Landscapes designed a series of terraces, a stairway to heaven that culminates in an idyllic swimming pool.
When the couple bought the property for themselves and their two daughters, now teenagers, in 2015, they could see the garden had potential. “There was a generous outdoor dining area, a well-established perimeter hedge and some retaining walls,” says Kylie. But there the positives ran dry: “It lacked a cooking zone and there was