Renowned landscape designer’s first home voted Australia’s most iconic spring listing

The owners of this heritage estate in country Victoria say they created the garden of their dreams, while voters on realestate.com.au have crowned it Australia's most iconic home.If you're a fan of gardens, you could do worse than to buy the very first plot planted by one of the country's foremost landscape designers.St Ambrose, at 7 Wood Street, Woodend in the charming Macedon Ranges northwest of Melbourne, was originally built as a schoolhouse in the 19th century before becoming Paul Bangay's very first home.Acclaimed landscape designer Paul Bangay's first home, a manicured estate known as St Ambrose, has been voted Australia's favourite spring garden property. Picture: realestate.com.au/buyMr Bangay, renowned for his precise angles and perfect symmetry, later moved to Stonefields near Daylesford, transforming an empty cow paddock over two decades into one of Australia's most beautiful country gardens.His original creation, now with its third owners since he left, has been voted Australia's favourite 'spring gardens' home in the latest realestate.com.au iconic listing poll. Perhaps Mr Bangay cast a vote.The current owner, who doesn't wish to be named, said the 1.09 hectares of ve...