Tickletank

Last week on one of our regular Open Garden expeditions we went to a garden in Mt. Barker which was really quite extraordinary.  It's owned by an artist and is a converted water tank! Yep, a water tank, which once serviced the then very small town of Mt Barker.  It was installed in 1944 - 50,000 gallons which is really quite huge.  This artist bought the property in 1998, and converted it into the most eclectic home you could imagine.
Here are a few images I took on that day.  This property made an enormous impression on me.  It was charming, and the atmosphere was so serene.  The artist has done all the work on the garden herself, and she has saved up all manner of broken pieces of crockery and furnished the garden with some extraordinary mosaics.Some mosaics are actually on the wall of the main tank.  The whole effect is quite wacky but in a good way.

 THE TANK WALL

A SHELF DISPLAY INSIDE THE HOUSE

TEAPOT WATERFALL # 1

TEAPOT WATERFALL # 2

When you enter the garden, it's through an archway completely smothered in a Banksia rose - except for one small Cecile Brunner rose, climbing through it.

MOSAIC CHAIR SEAT

2 DANCING MAIDENS

A VIEW OF THE GARDEN THROUGH SOME WROUGHT IRON WORK, WITH A MOSAIC PART OF THE TANK WALL IN THE BACKGROUND.

MOSAIC TABLE TOP