Australian Country Homes

A PLANTSMAN’S PARADISE

By his own reckoning, Mark Day is the luckiest man on earth. The veteran journalist, foreign correspondent and editor divides his time between a waterfront apartment in the Sydney suburb of Manly and a heritage-listed cottage on acreage in the bucolic surrounds of South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula.

“Through the years my wife, Wendy, and I have had weekenders north of Sydney,” Mark explains. “We both come from South Australia and have always had family to visit, so it made sense to look for a place down there where we could be near our relatives without actually staying with them. In 2005 Wendy was down visiting her mother when she heard about The

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