LOST PROPERTY

Hello Autumn, you gorgeous thing! With the turn of the leaves pending, we enter the most beautiful time of year. 

“Staying at Crofters Fold is an immersion. Besides the stunning ancient granite landscape Crofters Fold is set upon, the property seems to have a magical hum about it.

These days, the Garden Tap Nursery is encouraging the local habitat as much as the symbolic romance of flowers. “It’s brilliant to see people interested in growing their own food, they’re asking for more fruit trees like citrus trees,” explains Mary.

In the heart of Daylesford, the historic building houses a special story for anyone with roots to the community of Vincent street. Whether it’s Koukla cafe on the corner, the old Frangos & Frangos restaurant turned artful cocktail bar or the boutique hotel upstairs, there’s no denying Hotel Frangos is a Daylesford institution.

“There’s nothing like getting that tingle. I love being in those sorts of spaces. There’s just something about proportion, scale and light that affects your soul.”

Nestled among the lush fauna of the Macedon Ranges, Camp David Farm offers a bucolic escape, disguised as a slice of the country, on a picturesque garden estate.

In Les Miserables, Victor Hugo writes “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” The lyrical power of Paul Bangay’s gardens allow the wanderer to lose themselves in dreams sculpted from the divine.

Paul Bangay is working from a private studio in his country residence Stonefields, “My mother was a great gardener. She was very involved in design back then, very much a native focus. She used to work with Ellis Stone, the famous landscape designer. It was a garden that evolved all the time, that’s what I loved about it,” explains Paul, nostalgically. “I grew up in the outer Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, we had ten acres so I had my own collection of ferns and a big vegie garden.”