The brief
he owners of this house on an impossibly steep site in the Sydney suburb of Cammeray had relatively modest expectations when they contacted Barbara Landsberg of Landsberg Garden Design. The house is built on a sandstone bluff, with an eight-metre drop from the house to the street. The owners wanted to replace the difficult, old stone steps from the house with something more appealing and practical, and to add some plants to the roof of the garage, which formed a flat area halfway up, to the side of the steps. On their ‘good to have if possible’ list were beds for edibles, a water feature and native plants that would thrive in the site’s northerly aspect, exposed to sun and wind.
