About
If you are driving down the South Arm Highway, just past the Lauderdale causeway, you may, if you look to your left, see a sweet weatherboard cottage happily situated on the top of a small rise. Well, if you can see past the mass of garden in front of it, which you kind of can in the Winter. Other times, not so much. That is Crofton.
Jenny will tell you that it a Victorian weatherboard example of Georgian architecture and the original Post Office and Telephone Exchange in Sandford. She will also show you our Heritage Register plaque (which is stolen from one of our former houses but don’t tell anyone). The house actually is on the Heritage Register because all those things she says are true but the stolen plaque taints its association. Despite this, it’s a very lovely house but that’s not why we’re here, is it?
For around the house is a garden. A wonderful, whimsical garden full of rare and unusual plants combined with common plants, garden sculptures, ponds and whatever else has taken our fancy over time. It is a garden full of stories, personality and memories, both happy and sad. It is not perfect but we love it, weeds and all. If the garden could talk, it would tell tales of plants from exotic places hunted down by Jenny, of crazy ideas that somehow became a reality, much loved pets who have come and gone, even the occasional near death experience, but mostly it would tell you about the family who live within it. In particular, the mother (Jenny) and daughter (Holly) who attempt to keep it presentable with a minimum of fisticuffs. Who now want to share their garden with you.
Welcome to Crofton Garden.
