Gorgeous, lovingly presented 3 bedroom cottage set amongst the most desirable perfumed garden. Couples, smaller families or individuals will fall in love with this very special home. Sit back and enjoy the ever changing seasons, maybe even hire the gardens for special photographic shoots.

The name says it all! Perennis, (latin for recurring), is first and foremost a garden. Brimming with the rare and remarkable, this half-acre hills wonderland comes with a home – a cosy three-bedroom cottage that exists only for the better enjoyment of its luxuriant setting.

Any day now, azaleas, camellias and more than 150 named varieties of rhododendron will herald the arrival of spring in a blaze of crimsons through to the palest pinks and whites. It’s a spectacle you won’t want to miss!

Dropping down below one of Aldgate’s most fashionable streets, past the copper beaches and under the wisteria bridge; the driveway sweeps around the home to a large parking area at the rear, bounded by a double garage and shade house.

Friends will know to use the backdoor, sure of a warm welcome in the sunroom with its no-fuss marine-grade carpet and the promise of a home-cooked meal from the simple cream kitchen, featuring porcelain tiled counters and the latest microwave technology that dispenses with the need for a traditional cook top. There’s a handy servery to the dining room for more formal affairs and, beyond, the lounge offers more warming home comforts with a log-burning Adam-style fireplace, electric panel heater and a sunny window bay that will happily fit a bridge table. The formal entrance is here too.

Also downstairs is the master bedroom featuring walk-in storage and a low-tariff electric heater, a huge bathroom, walk-in pantry and laundry while, on the timber-floored level above, there are two more bedrooms and a small landing leading out to a gloriously elevated deck. Throughout, picture windows frame unique garden vistas while gas points allow a second heating option.

Twenty nine years in the making, the gardens are wonderfully mature with an eco climate all of their own and, for the most part, self-sustaining with dripper watering. Here, peacocks strut their finery and you can get up and personal with an abundance of wildlife -koalas, rosellas, kookaburras and a pondful of frogs, presided over by a delicate pieris. A perfect candidate for the Open Garden Scheme or wedding venue you might think, and you’d be right on both accounts!

Contained within a natural amphitheatre, the formal lawns to the west have seen more than a few couples tie the knot, to the accompaniment of a full orchestra up on the deck. Here too, a glory vine and double wisteria-wreathed loggia provides a large covered entertaining venue, and is just the place to sit and marvel at the pleached intricacies of a magnificent liquidambar.

Cast your eyes heavenward to take in the mighty Radiata Pine with its springtime veil of white wisteria, one of only a handful of trees original to the property. Everywhere you look there is something to delight and intrigue: the delicate leaf of the maple near the back door, the cork-like bark of the red-leafed Sheoak at the bottom of the garden, another liquidambar, triple trunked this time; the beech arch, rare conifers, redwoods, weeping birches and magnolia; the list goes on – all under planted with bulbs, hellebores, dahlias, variegated box, roses and every sensory enchantment imaginable.

Find this botanic paradise minutes from the buzz of Aldgate and Stirling, and an easy freeway commute to the city, about 20 minutes away.