Australian House & Garden

FORMAL LESSON

Architect Graham Fisher already had a weekender at Daylesford, 100 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, when a decommissioned primary school at nearby Kingston came up for sale in 2008. But he couldn’t help himself and bought the old building, constructed in the 1870s, along with its hectare of land. He has spent 12 enjoyable years building a garden that has slowly

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