Grass grew. It wasn't grass we wanted and it wasn't where we wanted it, but it grew anyway. This had been a paddock, after all.
It was at this point that I had to decide on structural issues. How close was the garden going to be to the house? Orchard in the yard or not? How much of the view would be sacrificed to protect the house from wind? How much lawn? Eucalypts in the yard? Natives or exotics or a combination of both? And while I would walk the yard and imagine and envisage the future garden, the old tufts of paddock grass continued to grow...
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