EFORE ELIZA ROGERS MOVED TO TASMANIA from Brisbane, she had a pretty clear idea of what her dream house would look like. “It was an old stone house in the countryside with a rambling rose around the doorway and maybe an orchard,” she says. Instead, since 2017, she’s been living in a ’70s Besser block three-bedroom townhouse in inner-city Hobart, with a small courtyard and nothing growing around the front door. There are heaps of indoor plants, though, including begonias that she grew from cuttings she was given from the botanic gardens in Hobart. “It’s totally silly to be able to say they came from there,” she says.
