Horticulturist Peta Deacon shares an 820m2 block in the northern Brisbane suburb of Lawnton with her mother Sharon and sister Janelle.
Their garden enjoys full sun virtually all year round, making it the perfect haven for a vast array of ornamentals and productive edible plants.
Peta has loved gardening and plants since she first began to walk. Currently an educator at Brisbane Botanic Gardens in Mt Coot-tha and Tumble Tots Kindergarten in Stafford Heights, she’s worked as a horticulturist for some 15 years as well as teaching permaculture design for around four years.
It could be genetic, starting with her great-grandfather Harry Holmesby, a sustainable farmer who went on to work breeding plants in
