Gordon Ford


Gordon Ford created ruggedly beautiful gardens in a distinctly Australian style.
After returning from service in New Guinea in WWII, he settled near Montsalvat where he dug out a site and built a house made out of mud bricks from the clay.
Ford worked closely with Eltham architect, Alistair Knox. He trained as a landscape gardener with Ellis Stones.
In the last years of his life he, in turn, trained landscape designer, Sam Cox.

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