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Big Garden Design

The making of beautiful country gardens

A garden that cannot be seen in one glance entices people to step outside with a sense of wonder. Landscape designer Paul Bangay has an extraordinary ability to envisage scale and create gardens that feel as though they’ve been there forever. These gardens are places to explore.

They emerge from the countryside, with borrowed landscapes and dramatic views as key elements. Within each design, Paul creates spaces that bring a different experience of the garden. Vast lawns are bordered by wild grass terraces or dramatic herbaceous borders that flower all year round. An allée of trees directs the eye to mountains in the distance. Outdoor dining areas create intimate vantage points within the broader scale. Jasmine-covered walls diffuse exquisite scent on summer nights.

From grand gardens in France to a forest grown from saplings, join Paul on this tour de force of projects complete with lakes, mountains and walled gardens. For each project, Paul shares the design process, as well as garden plans and extensive planting lists.

Simon Griffiths’ photography of these gardens from around the world captures the sublime form, light and generous landscapes.

Big Garden Design documents a designer who relishes the challenge of working at scale and the principles of landscape design from the most precise detail to the grandest vista.

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For over 30 years Paul Bangay has fulfilled his clients’ aspirations for gardens that are expressive of the timeless elegance and classic simplicity for which he is internationally renowned.

Widely regarded as the foremost garden designer in Australia today, Bangay’s clients include a roster of the most prominent figures in business and culture. His extensive list of projects span private and public commissions in Australia and New Zealand, as well as further afield in Europe, North America and the West Indies.

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A Video Tour Of Paul Bangay’s Own Legendary Garden

Just a couple of weeks ago, Lucy joined Paul Bangay at his resplendent private garden, Stonefields, in Daylesford to launch his new book. Paul created this grand country garden from scratch, and it has been a labour of love for 16 years! Over that time, Paul as witnessed the impressive and dramatic ways it changes with the seasons. (In turn, it has witnessed the evolution of his stratospheric career!)

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Stonefields in Winter

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Stonefields by the Seasons

‘To live a life led by the seasons is to live one closely tied to a garden, and Stonefields is mine.’

Paul Bangay’s celebrated Victorian property, Stonefields, has now been under his expert care for 15 years. Today, the garden is mature and more beautiful than ever – from the vibrant autumn colours in the woodland and evocative dormancy of winter to the jubilant flowering of the crab apple in springtime and perpetual rich harvest of produce. In Stonefields by the Seasons, Paul takes the reader through the garden at different times of year to highlight the design principles he has applied to various parts of it, and the wide-ranging inspirations for his choices. Along the way, he gives practical advice on seasonal planting and outlines essential quarterly tasks.

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Three distinct scents that take inspiration from the array of plants and flowers that play the leading role in his landscapes.

These fragrances were developed in collaboration with perfumers from one of the worlds leading French fragrance house.

Designed with a proprietary blend of vegetable oils and paraffin, each candle has 0ver 40 hours burn time and a cotton wick.

Paul selected green glass for his premier candle collection which evokes the sense of outdoor greenery in refined muted tones. A gold hot stamped logo brings a sense of elegance and sophistication.

The deluxe outer carton has a linen like texture and is designed to feel like opening a beautiful gift either for yourself or a friend.

Each candle is enclosed with a lovely gift card.