Australian House & Garden

NATURAL WONDER

For their sculptural home in a spectacular, sometimes wild, coastal setting, Emmy and Liam Robertson wanted a suitably head-turning garden that combined “the rugged and the polished”. And Darin Bradbury of Mint Design happily obliged. “You can’t ignore the natural beauty of coastal Victoria,” he says. “And gardens in that environment need to speak to that sense of place and work with it. This garden had to be a bridge between landscape and architecture.”

Having designed the couple’s previous garden, Darin was the logical choice. “We

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