WHEN PASSIONATE GARDENERS Treska and Dave James found themselves in a newly built house on the South Coast of New South Wales, complete with shiny new furnishings and a lawn “manicured to within an inch of its life”, they had an overwhelming sense that something was missing. “We built a massive home on a postage-stamp block,” says Dave, who, along with Treska, works as a public servant and commutes to Sydney part-time. “What we needed was the opposite – a smaller house and a massive yard.”
With Treska, 32, having grown up in Berry and Dave, 31, in Kangaroo Valley,
