Wendy's Secret Garden, Lavender Bay

Wendy Whiteley's garden hugs the foreshore below the railway line at Lavender Bay, offering a unique vantage that places wild fig trees and native plantings against the Harbour Bridge. The garden is at its most photogenic at golden hour when the low sun lights up the foliage and warms the bridge's steel. A macro lens finds extraordinary detail in the garden's informal plantings of agapanthus, Port Jackson figs and native grasses. The elevated upper terraces give a clear sightline over the rooftops to the full arc of the bridge. Mist sometimes settles on the harbour below at dawn in winter months.