The secret garden which has a heart-warming story and a space worth sharing. When Wendy Whitley lost her husband, Australian artist Brett Whitely in 1992, she focused her love and grief into transforming a disused, derelict train yard space.
Wendy’s Secret Garden – which is at the foothill of her private home in Lavender Bay – has been nurtured by Whitley and two gardeners over the past 25 years. They’ve planted natives, exotics, plants and herbs and landscaped the space with winding paths supported by raw bush timber balustrades, benches to sit on and cobbled stairs, retaining walls and paths.
Alongside the natural beauty of curling ferns, flowering lilies and towering shady figs, you’ll also find bronze busts, engraved stone tablets, wooden carvings and other sculptures dotted around the garden. These artworks serve as a point of inspiration for Whitely and the community alike, with many being donated by local artists.
The garden also reveals beautiful views of the sparkling Harbour foreshore, framing the Harbour Bridge and the fringes of North Sydney and the CBD.
It is a place to not only fall in love but appreciate nature and see beauty in all aspect and how details are the one's that keep us together in hard times, Miss Whitley keep her husband's love alive through her gardening showing us a level of spirituality we all wish to have.
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