The rear garden at Clifton Hill, lawn running up to a white flat-roofed pavilion with the pool fence to one side

Clifton Hill.

A Victorian weatherboard at the street, a white flat-roofed pavilion at the back, and a garden that has to hold both. The front keeps the original tessellated path, with lambs ear, salvia and grasses breaking over the tile edge. Behind the house the planting gives way to structure. Limestone crazy paving, board-formed concrete for the bench and the kitchen, a clean rectangle of lawn, and a blue tiled pool tucked in behind the timber shed. Virginia creeper does the rest, carried across the white walls and up the boundary.

Pool and courtyard.

The courtyard looking across to the concrete bench and outdoor kitchen, silver birch behind
The tiled pool behind its white fence, timber clad shed on one side
Limestone coping at the pool edge with coastal rosemary spilling over the paving
Limestone crazy paving, coastal rosemary
Native violet and blue chalksticks running out to the lawn edge and the aggregate drive
The pavilion eave and the outdoor kitchen seen from the lawn, creeper across the wall
Potted dichondra and lambs ear against the white wall beside the door
Detail of the board-formed concrete seat with its timber back, liriope beneath
Board-formed concrete, timber back
The concrete bench meeting the paving, mondo grass set into the join
Rusted reinforcing mesh trellis on the dark corrugated boundary, with creeper climbing through
Reinforcing mesh trellis, dark corrugated boundary

Front garden.

The original tessellated tile path leading to the front door of the weatherboard cottage
Lambs ear, salvia and tussock grasses in the front border beside the tiled path