Craving a simpler life...
The Story Behind the Work
The Wildest Bloom began with a lifelong connection to nature and a deep respect for the quiet ways it supports us through change.
A working garden, not a show garden. This space is where I test ideas, learn what thrives, and shape the way I design for others. Built from reclaimed materials and grown through trial and care, it reflects how I believe gardens should work — practical, adaptable, and deeply personal.
I grew up on a sugar cane farm in Queensland, surrounded by animals, homemade pikelets, and my grandmother’s garden. From an early age, I learned how grounding it can be to work with your hands, observe growth, and care for something living.
Over time, that connection became something more essential. During periods of significant personal challenge, tending to plants and soil offered stability, purpose, and a sense of calm when little else did.
As the years passed, gardening became not just a creative outlet, but a way to rebuild — to move steadily forward, to work with what was in front of me, and to allow things to grow in their own time.
Today, The Wildest Bloom is shaped by that experience. My work focuses on thoughtful, low-impact garden design and care, grounded in sustainability and respect for the natural environment.
I create gardens that are practical, resilient, and lived in — spaces that feel steady, supportive, and connected to the world around them.
This is my own working garden — designed entirely around how I live and use the space.
What began as bare ground has become a productive, evolving garden shaped by daily life, changing needs, and constant learning.
It’s a garden that encourages birds, bees, butterflies and frogs as well as a whole bunch of other beneficial creatures. Regenerative farming methods on a super small scale is the ethos I live by so I use no pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilisers, I create my own compost to reduce waste but also because it benefits my soil.
The garden is a mix of food crops, cut flowers, other perennial and annual flowers and experimental planting, built using reclaimed materials and will adjust over time as needs shift. Nothing here is fixed or ornamental for the sake of appearance. Every part exists for a reason — to function well, to support the way I live, and to adapt as those needs change.
This garden is where I test ideas, observe what truly works, and learn how different spaces respond to real use. It’s also where I refine the approach I take with clients: designing gardens around the people who use them, not around trends or rigid rules.
Every garden I design is shaped in the same way — by listening, understanding how a space is lived in, and creating something that genuinely supports the person it belongs to.
It's hard to believe this garden is only a few months old with most of what you see started from seed.
You can take the girl out of the farm, but you'll never take the farm out of the girl.
