Why have an idle tennis court when instead you can score a lush, free-form garden with deep, layered beds as inviting as this? That was the willing sacrifice the green-fingered owner of this home in Melbourne’s south-east made and he has never looked back.
Its designer, Myles Broad of Eckersley Garden Architecture, for whom this was the third project with the owner, welcomed the call in 2018. “There are so many under-used tennis courts in this part of the city,” he says. “It was great to be able to do something with