We recently stayed at the home and garden we built on the Never Never River from 1994-2007 and had a chance to see how the house and plants had fared in the intervening years. The house started as a very large single room with a kitchen and a big verandah, then as kids came along we added a big shed, bedroom wing and a tower for a guest house, all of which formed a bit of a quadrangle in the end. The new owners are artists and have only added to the charm and eccentricity of the place.
All of the plantings are native rainforest trees and are now 30 years old.
The buildings form a quadrangle at the rear wit a large flat grassed area.
The north verandah has the most magnificent views of the Dorrigo escarpment. Syzygium wilsonii in the foreground.
We left our old kids trampoline behind and Tom the artist transformed it into this crazy interesting downpipe. He also laid the concrete path with decorative sawcuts and teaspoon scoops.
The Never Never. The fallen log causing the cascade has been in place for more than 30 years through numerous floods
The Never Never
Darlingia ferruginea
Flindersia oppositifolia foliage and fruit.
Bangalows tower over the tower. With Davidsonia pruriens
Podocarpus grayae
A weeping form of Austromyrtus metrosideros
Interior of the first building completed in 1995. The floor is 6 inch Blackbutt boards, the kitchen is Hoop Pine and Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon (both purchased for $200 from a farmer in Dorrigo who milled them after a storm had fallen them), and the ceiling is ripple iron. All the glass came up from the nursery in Dural.