In a charming street in Toowoomba, on Queensland’s Darling Downs, you’ll find charming Lorea House and, hidden behind it, an even more charming garden.
While the cottage itself is 115 years old, Leisa and Serge Rossignol began planning the flourishing potager garden just four years ago, filling the compact 640m2 block with flowering perennials, fruit trees and vegetable beds.
Within two years, in 2021, their garden had been named grand champion in The Chronicle Garden Competition — centrepiece of Toowoomba’s famed Carnival of Flowers — and the year after that it won best back garden as well as most productive.
Leisa created her first garden some
