The Combined House Garden: I planted the garden out in zones flowing out from the house as a total concept that flowed the house in with the surrounding bush and vice versa. Where did house and garden actually finish? ….. they tended to merge in hard landscape and soft landscape. Tall eucalypt trees nearby merged with new low planting to create a series of open flowing rooms off the house. The view of the exterior came into the interior through all the glass of the windows ….. on the outside the bush was reflected in the glass. There were some open spaces and others were closed planted spaces. The open spaces were thinly planted or had low shrubs to look over into the surrounding bush but sometimes they were planted to enclose the spaces as open rooms.
On some of the garden edges I had planted an informal line of storm lily bulbs that would give spontaneous colour with the flowering of lilies after storms. This was characterised in recent times when we had two very big thunderstorms which was a refreshing change to our dry Australian bush and garden for this time of year at our property at Chambers Flat. Within a few days, the numerous dormant storm lilies around the garden began to throw up new pink flower stems out the nest of drab green straplike leaves. Over a few days, the swelling pink bulbous end of the stalks began to swell further to reveal a rolled tubular flower that suddenly unfurled in a day to a soft pink trumpet like flower of indescribable beauty. Six soft pointed petals are expanded towards the sun with varying shades of soft pink and soft white. Each petal was softly streaked with pink from point petal to a whiter centre. A cluster of yellow stamens is at the centre of the corona of petals.
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