LOCATION:

Yallingup WA

CLIENT:

Private

SITE AREA:

8.66ha, garden 3,600 square metres

YEAR:

2023

ARCHITECT:

Hudson Yard

SITE CONTEXT:

A country property on clay loam with a winter creek.  Beautiful honey-coloured site granite excavated from recent dam works is available for walling in the garden. An inherited cottage garden surrounds the house, which will be renovated and extended

DESIGN INTENT:

The intent behind the design was to re-imagine the cultivated parts of the landscape to be more sympathetic with the broader site. This meant moving from a cottage feel to a more open, textured garden, with less deciduousness and more layers of planting that could attract and hold onto the stunning light that permeates through the property.

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An olive grove, to be transplanted en masse from a neighbour, is the entrance point from the broader landscape, leading to a meadow of native field grasses interspersed with seasonal pops of perennial colour. The front entrance to the house has been entirely re-worked, with stone retaining walls taking up the steep grade and batten screening providing a courtyard area for guests.

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Granite stepping stones nestled deep within the turf provides a path network throughout the areas around the house, and leads down through a steep wooded pathway to the creek below, where mass granite stepping stones, stencilled with personal messages from the clients, provide safe passage over the water.