Edna Walling garden for sale at Crookwell's Kiloren
Kiloren, the six-hectare Southern Tablelands property with Edna Walling gardens, has been relisted for sale.
It was installed in 1951 around the three-bedroom Crookwell house designed by architect John Mansfield for the Broadbent family. Walling was familiar with the climate given her Markdale, Binda commission for the Ashton family in the late 1940s.
The Kiloren garden has been in the care of gardening author Jennie Churchill and her husband, vet Rob Churchill, for more than three decades.
Drew Lindsay Real Estate is seeking $1.2 million.
The six-hectare Crookwell property comes with one of the most intact Edna Walling gardens.
Its classic Walling features include basalt walls and pathways softened by relaxed planting.
Walling described it as one of her less formal designs. She believed that landscape architects should be involved from the earliest stage of the project when she worked around the house under construction on a bare hillside with just one tree.
She brought plants from her own nursery at Bickleigh Vale, near Melbourne. There is a cottage within the grounds.
