Rhonda's Garden
Trentham
Rhonda's Garden at Trentham in central Victoria, designed by Tim Pilgrim around a contemporary new build on a quarter acre block, briefed to make a small garden feel larger and more secluded than it is, the path winding the length of the house and raised mounds through the border for height.
The planting is his naturalistic prairie style leaning on the nearby Wombat forest, switchgrass, miscanthus and feather reed grass with verbena and daisies, on a Tuscan topping path chosen to shrug off big rains and stand out against the house's dark cladding. The garden was made around 2020 for Rhonda Watson, whose brief asked for a small lawn for grandchildren, a vegetable patch and planting for pollinators and local wildlife, and it opened its gate for Open Gardens Victoria in April 2023. Martina Gemmola photographed the garden.
Tim Pilgrim Gardens
Tim Pilgrim is a garden designer working from his studio in Central Victoria, formally trained in horticulture, with more than fifteen years in gardens including time at the Garden of St Erth, Sefton and Stonefields. His book Wild by Design won Illustrated Non-Fiction at the 2026 Indie Book Awards.
Tim Pilgrim Gardens (@t.p_gardens). Seen via @slow_roads.
The picture comes from this post on Instagram, with more in a second and a third post.
Researched August 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.