Day: January 10, 2022
Heide Museum’s Enchanting New Therapeutic Backyard
Heide Museum of Trendy Artwork’s new therapeutic backyard is positioned on the positioning of co-founder Sunday Reed’s first kitchen backyard. Initially a French-style potager, with raised gardens beds of greens and herbs to feed the Reeds and the well-known artists they invited to Heide, this kitchen backyard was ultimately moved to its present location resulting from eucalyptus bushes casting an excessive amount of shadow over the area.
Sunday’s good friend Barrett Reid later tried to plant a “rainforest” backyard (presumably out of nostalgia for Queensland, the place he was from) on the unique web site, though these plantings had been largely unsuccessful and strayed from the preliminary imaginative and prescient. Over time, the backyard turned under-utilised and overgrown.
The concept for a therapeutic backyard to revitalise the area was proposed a number of years in the past by Heide gardener and former nurse, Katie Grace. Bringing her two professions collectively,