The Potager Garden

From paddock to plate

The Potager is my personal garden, and perhaps the most meaningful garden I have ever created.

It began during the pandemic, when my young family and I returned to my family home. What was once little more than a bare paddock and a tired chook pen was transformed over six months into a working kitchen garden, created for daily life, fresh produce and the simple pleasure of growing things.

Surrounded by wild meadow flowers and inspired by the enduring romance of English country gardens, the Potager brings together the ornamental and the productive. Dahlias grow beside vegetables, flowers spill through the borders and the garden changes with every season. It is practical, abundant and a little unruly, but above all, it is made to be lived in.

Over time, the garden has become a place for my family, a source of inspiration for my work and a living expression of the way I believe gardens should be made. It has also found an audience far beyond our little corner of Victoria, appearing on British gardening podcasts and being featured by Gardening Australia, Better Homes & Gardens and others.

The Potager is never finished. Each season brings something new, and that is perhaps what I love most about it.

Follow along on Instagram to see the garden as it grows, changes and evolves through the seasons.