A windy hilltop on the Mornington Peninsula was the blank canvas on which Ann-Maree Winter tested her courage and became a gardener.
Words Megan Backhouse
Photography Martina Gemmola
‘I SPENT a lot of time inside hiding from the garden. I just couldn’t wrap my head around the scale of the place.”
When Ann-Maree Winter describes her first months in her new home on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, she often circles back to her apprehension. It was 2016 and she and her husband, Paul, had just moved from 450 square metres in the Melbourne suburb of Parkdale to 28,000 square metres (or seven-odd acres) in Arthurs Seat.
