Throughout its history, many people have created memories at the house, its surrounds and the garden.

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The property, now owned by McComas Taylor and Janet Phillips will open at the Crookwell Garden Festival in November.

In 2000, Mr Taylor and Ms Phillips inherited the still reasonably young garden. Only 40 years before John and Alison Lamond had established the gardens.

Mr Taylor said, "it was a bare paddock before the Lamonds got to work.

"Only the big pine trees along the road pre-date them."

Mr Lamond planted all the trees, he said.

The garden now has many wonderful and established specimens including plane trees and oaks, beech and stands of silver birch, poplars with under plants of old fashioned perennials.

The recent addition of a basalt fieldstone terrace wall gives the garden a distinctly Edna Walling feel and compliments the pond featuring Louisiana irises.

"I am a huge fan of Edna Walling," Mr Taylor said.

"We hope to create a peaceful, relaxed natural garden that she would enjoy."

He said people create gardens because they need to create beauty.

"I need to create beauty."

Coinciding with the garden festival is the release of a book about the history of the property - Balcony Rose, The History of a Happy Place - dating from the Gundungara people to today.

Mr Taylor narrates the acquisition of Wade's Station by Thomas Brook around 1872, to the Clements', the Blackman family, the Kensit's and the teachers and more.

Copies will be available from the Crookwell Library and the Crookwell and District Historical Society.