The gardener’s Plot

A conversation series from Sunhill House

The Gardener’s Plot is the storytelling space where Miranda shares the vision-holding process.

From the A’Vard Studio at Sunhill House, Miranda brings together the designs for the kitchen garden, her plans for movement stations across the property and how her plant-obsessed thinking for each pocket garden shapes her sense of self and expands her artistry.

This series honours the real, often imperfect stories behind the making of the garden: the decisions, experiments, philosophies, failures, pivots, rituals, and small triumphs that bring a living landscape into being. Each feature shines a light on the person behind the garden, their hands, their history, their influences, their climate, their values.

Across interviews, photo essays, garden walk-throughs, and conversations around the table, The Gardener’s Plot becomes a place to meet the people who cultivate beauty, nourishment, and meaning in their own patch of earth. Honest conversations with the people who grow, tend, design, and imagine.

It’s part field note, part design study, part memoir of place, all in service to the idea that gardens are living stories, not finished products.

Some of the topics Miranda explores are human creativity in dialogue with new tools, the future of landscapes, home ecosystems, and regenerative life, and how people will design homes and gardens into the future.

HOw it Started

In 2022, my partner and I moved into my family home with my father. My mother had passed away. It had been her wish in the years before she died for Jay and me to build a dwelling at the back of the property, replacing a dilapidated shed.

Instead, my father invited us to move into the house with him on the understanding that he would also create a separate space for himself. He engaged Humpy in 2023, who installed a studio space built in 2023. Flash forward four years, and that space is now his counselling practice. The property had been a mostly native garden and there were some particularly our callistamons and banksia that was heartbreaking to remove. But strategically they stood in the path of the dwellings.

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build a separate space. we have following building a studio space in our back yard, we engaged Biodiverse Garden Design to design a new native garden. With the exception of one large and Outer Haven Landscaping.

Generate By Design is more than just about a garden. It’s about a life, home, ecosystem co-designed with AI.

Alongside my husband and father who I live with, I’m collaboratively shaping land. systems, fitness, food, and home as a regenerative studio life supported by intelligent tools. The ethos of A’Vard Studio which is my xxxxxx