“ It would be nice to be able to say that we had a vision but serendipity played a part
When Lucy and Richard Marshall purchased Merribee as a weekender in the Shoalhaven region of NSW, they didn’t plan to establish an extraordinary garden and associated tourism business there. “It would be nice to be able to say that we had a vision back then, for what it is now, but we didn’t,” Lucy says. “Serendipity played a part.”
Back then, in 2000, Merribee measured two and a half acres (1 hectare), with an 1851 farmhouse and dilapidated outbuildings from its nearly 150-year history as a dairy farm that had only just ended — there was a silo still full of grain.
The garden had
