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"The Drip" is a 60 acre privately owned rural retreat thirty kilometres northeast of Mudgee, Australia.
"The Drip", a privately owned rural retreat, is named after a permanent spring which flows from the sandstone cliffs of the Great Dividing Range. It is located in a secluded valley adjoining the Munghorn Gap Nature Reserve,
Featuring spectacular sandstone cliffs, rugged native bushland, abundant water and a fertile valley floor the property offers a unique diversity of environments within a small area. . Within this natural landscape more than twenty distinctly themed gardens have been established. These gardens are linked by a series of clearly defined walks of varying lengths and ease.
We are also developing a substantial library focusing on gardening, landscaping and environmental issues.
This website is being developed as the guide to the gardens and walks. The site features garden designs, commentary and plans plus plant lists and slideshows relating to each individual area of this property. The related blog is a garden diary of activities here at The Drip , Mudgee. Click here to visit the blog
Featuring spectacular sandstone cliffs, rugged native bushland, abundant water and a fertile valley floor the property offers a unique diversity of environments within a small area. . Within this natural landscape more than twenty distinctly themed gardens have been established. These gardens are linked by a series of clearly defined walks of varying lengths and ease.
We are also developing a substantial library focusing on gardening, landscaping and environmental issues.
This website is being developed as the guide to the gardens and walks. The site features garden designs, commentary and plans plus plant lists and slideshows relating to each individual area of this property. The related blog is a garden diary of activities here at The Drip , Mudgee. Click here to visit the blog
The future of "The Drip", Mudgee.
"The Drip" was purchased by Clive Poolman and Michael Creighton in March 1992 as tenants-in-common with the clear intention of preserving and enhancing this unique property as a shared legacy for the Poolman and Creighton families, this custodianship to be shared in the present day and handed on to the future generations of both families.
The property features two residences, The Big House and The Caretaker's Cottage, enabling the duties of this shared custodianship to be carried out with The Big House providing a base for the Poolman family and The Caretakers Cottage providing a base for the Creighton family in the decades ahead.
However our vision transcends the use of this property merely as a private pleasure garden or country retreat for our families. Our intention is that this unique property should be shared in the widest possible manner with the public though the encouragement of events such as open days and other events with a garden, landscape and environmental theme. Events designed to raise funds for charities are to be encouraged. Our plan is to place The Drip into a Trust so as to enable the custodianship of the natural environment of The Drip and of the gardens, walks and buildings that we have created. In the event that the two families, the Poolmans and the Creightons, are unable to come to an arrangement fulfilling their shared responsibility to maintain custodianship of "The Drip" , then the property is not to be sold but is to be gifted to a not-for-profit organization , ideally for the promotion of environmental awareness with a focus on sustainability in garden and farm design.
The property features two residences, The Big House and The Caretaker's Cottage, enabling the duties of this shared custodianship to be carried out with The Big House providing a base for the Poolman family and The Caretakers Cottage providing a base for the Creighton family in the decades ahead.
However our vision transcends the use of this property merely as a private pleasure garden or country retreat for our families. Our intention is that this unique property should be shared in the widest possible manner with the public though the encouragement of events such as open days and other events with a garden, landscape and environmental theme. Events designed to raise funds for charities are to be encouraged. Our plan is to place The Drip into a Trust so as to enable the custodianship of the natural environment of The Drip and of the gardens, walks and buildings that we have created. In the event that the two families, the Poolmans and the Creightons, are unable to come to an arrangement fulfilling their shared responsibility to maintain custodianship of "The Drip" , then the property is not to be sold but is to be gifted to a not-for-profit organization , ideally for the promotion of environmental awareness with a focus on sustainability in garden and farm design.
The Will of Theophrastus, read by us around the time of purchasing The Drip in 1992, beautifully expresses our shared hopes for our two families, the Poolmans and the Creightons, working together as the future custodians of The Drip, Mudgee.
Theophrastus co-founded the Greek Peripatetic School of Philosophy with Aristotle, laying the foundations of Western thought for the next two and half thousand years. They bought taught at the Lyceum in Athens . Theophrastus was a man of wealth and substance and he created a notable garden, which he bequeathed to the Lyceum as a permanent seat of instruction. He is regarded as the father of the modern science of Botany. The vision expressed by Theophrastus in his Will has guided the work we have begun here at "The Drip" and it perfectly expresses our intention for the future of the property. |  Theophrastus 371 – 287 BC.
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The Will of Theophrastus
"As to my garden and these walks and my house and these colonnades I give them to those mentioned here, in order that they may continue the work we have begun, provided that they shall not be able to alienate this property; it shall not belong to any of them individually but they shall own it in common as a sacred possession and shall care for it and enjoy it peaceably and amicably as is just and fitting; so it may pass on again to those who shall come later and receive it thus"
