Most homes usually have a view of some description — a row of trees, an adjacent building or maybe nearby parklands. It’s that defining “something” that the eye is drawn to as it peers out the window at the world. Fewer homes have a selection of vistas, while a lucky few have spectacles at every turn. John and Sally-Ann Cottle’s country property, Shirley, located half an hour from Cooma, is such a place. It’s a veritable oasis that features extensive European-inspired gardens, a man-made lake and room enough for approximately 12,000 Merino and Dorset-cross sheep.
“We returned from travels in Europe in 2006,” Sally-Ann explains, “and we were so inspired by the extraordinary gardens we had seen that we commissioned Melbourne-based landscape designer, Paul Bangay, to sympathetically redesign the garden…
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