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LIVING REIMAGINED:

Planting the seeds

of community

The environment wins in a new neighbourhood

where the history of place is told through retained
trees and a productive orchard.

Above: Wongin Park, Upfront delivery of Wongin Park supports community building
Left: The playground is designed around mature trees retained on-site

Ian Russell gets a bit excited about the Mr Russell’s passion for plants extends
dirt at Henley Brook. It’s the same rich, across the entire 50.97 hectare Henley
fertile soil that supports a thriving wine Brook estate where more than 600 trees,
industry in the neighbouring Swan Valley. some with up to 60 years growth, will be
retained.
Little wonder that the man whose vast
horticultural knowledge has made him “We worked our masterplan around
Mirvac’s National Landscaping Service keeping the trees that we could and
Director, was intent on letting none of transferring others into the landscape
that precious dirt go to waste. at Henley Brook or in some cases other
projects,” says Mr Russell.
At the gateway to the Swan Valley wine
district, Henley Brook will have its own “Where we had the most mature
productive orchard where residents will natives, we have created Wongin Park
be able to pick and eat as they please. Playground. Deciduous trees have been
Once an agglomeration of hobby farms, transplanted into streetscapes and road
established citrus trees have been islands and the citrus into the community
transplanted to a nursery awaiting garden.”
a permanent place in Orchard Park.
There will be olives, avocado, apple, With its 6.9 hectares of landscaped open
pear, nectarine and loquat trees with an space Henley Brook stands in startling
underplanting of vegetables and herbs. contrast to neighbouring subdivisions
where there’s barely a hint of green.

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