Australian House & Garden

Perfect Balance

INVITING GREEN SPACES TO RELAX AND UNWIND IN

The multi-faceted gardens of Ducks Crossing, a property on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, are composed of three areas: a formal parterre garden, a Japanese-inspired area with a ginkgo forest and cypress trees and a new perennial garden that surrounds the main home (see ‘Homecoming’ on page 80).

Camilla d’Antoine, husband Tim and their young family moved to the property, with its old weatherboard cottage,

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