Take time to savour all its sensual delights: here, a boronia on the banks of the winter creek; there, a lemon scented verbena and a Linden tree, the flower of which may be used for herbal tea; and roses – lots of them – including the tiered Delbard rose garden in the northwest corner. Everywhere you look – enchantment!

Look forward to cooking with produce picked fresh from the garden in the large modern kitchen featuring European appliances, a walk-in pantry and sociable breakfast bar, and linger over breakfast in the meals area with its ringside view of blue wrens, gold finches and honeyeaters dipping in and out of the waterfall pond. A conservatory-style bay with banquette storage is the gateway to alfresco relaxation. Surrounded by botanic plantings, an adjoining terrace and octagonal gazebo offer a choice of entertaining venues. Pathways lead to a series of garden rooms which have provided some of the most magical settings for our vendors’ portrait photography business.

The business itself has been run from a large timber-floored studio on the first floor. Featuring a refreshment station, it could also make a great rumpus or billiard room. The floor plan allows for three bedrooms on this level. Retaining separate doorways, two have been combined to enjoy a private balcony and built-in bookshelves at one end, while the generous and luxuriously appointed master suite is peacefully located on the ground floor.

A gravel driveway leads to parking and auto double garaging with internal access to the two-storey home, designed by John Ashcroft. A second gateway to the property provides a park-like sweep across manicured lawns where a 6m x 9m shed is a useful repository for ride-on mowers and garden tools.

Many of the camellias and established trees, a blend of natives and European exotics, date back sixty years and more to when the garden was part of a much larger property. There are a dozen or so places for garden seats as, sometimes, it’s nice to sit and enjoy a garden rather than rush through it.

Complete with 22,500 litres of rainwater storage; find this most breathtaking and inspiring of properties just minutes from the buzz of Aldgate and Stirling, and an easy twenty-minute freeway commute to your city workplace. Be first to see it this weekend!