Landscape designer Paul Bangay and husband Barry have listed their panoramic home at 20 Belty Drive, Denver.
Famous landscape designer Paul Bangay has relisted his Victorian estate featuring one of the world’s most celebrated gardens with a $6m-$6.6m price tag.
Mr Bangay and husband Barry first put their 15.8ha property, named Stonefields and located between Kyneton and Daylesford, up for sale in 2022.
However, an eight-figure deal that would have seen celebrity gardener Jamie Durie and his business partners buy the site at 20 Belty Drive, Denver, to transform into an eco-retreat fell through after they decided to pursue other tourism-related options instead.
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Mr Bangay said now was the right time to put the residence back on the market as he and Barry looked forward to planning their next epic home and garden.
Since 2004, they have transformed Stonefields from an empty cow paddock into a Tuscan-inspired house surrounded by hundreds of thousands of blooms.
A hilltop solar-heated pool, grape-lined terraces, walled outdoor sections, topiary, hedges, a rose section and a woodland feature outdoors.
“We’ve got an avenue of oaks on our driveway and now they’re touching each other, so it’s a real, proper avenue,” Mr Bangay said.
The property is set on a sprawling 15.8ha land holding.
Garden designer and author Paul Bangay. Photo: Simon Griffiths.
Light fittings made of elk horns, collected after they were shed by the animals, feature in the home.
Mr Bangay and Barry collaborated with late interior designer Stuart Rattle on the four-bedroom house where the sitting area showcases a 2m-wide stone fireplace.
The kitchen is fitted with Belgian slate benchtops, dual Miele dishwashers and a La Canche oven.
A flower room with a bench and sink is ideal for preparing blossoms to display indoors or food while catering.
There’s also two separate studios, one of which Mr Bangay uses to plan his projects and meet with clients who fly to Stonefields in their helicopters.
Mr Bangay said the parterre garden section with its 4000 white tulips “looked spectacular” at the moment.
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Wallpaper and bespoke furnishings feature inside.
Along with birthdays and Christmases, his cherished memories include holding multiple open garden events, attended by thousands of visitors, which raised about $250,000 for the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation’s schools program.
Apart from Ms Alexander, Australian food icons Maggie Beer and Kylie Kwong have been hosted at Stonefields.
Mr Bangay said the property’s next owners could enjoy the garden as is or put their own stamp on it.
“I just hope that it brings them as much joy – and I’m sure it will – as we’ve had out of the place,” Mr Bangay said.
“We just feel blessed every time we come here and every time we walk around the garden, every day into every room and we just feel such joy when we’re doing that.”
Infrastructure includes zoned irrigation systems, two bores, two dams and more than 250,000 litres of water storage.
For more than 35 years, Mr Bangay has designed public and private gardens in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the US and the West Indies in addition to writing a series of gardening books.
He received the Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to landscape architecture in 2018.
Mr Bangay has also been presented with several awards, including the Landscape Designer of the Year gong at the 2024 Vogue Living inaugural VL50 awards.
He and Barry aren’t planning on going too far when establishing their next home and garden, aiming to remain in the Daylesford, Trentham and Kyneton area.
Stonefields is for sale via expressions of interest. Marshall White director Marcus Chiminello has the listing.
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