A single frangipani tree is what won Mickey Robertson over when her husband, Larry, showed her the dilapidated 12-hectare property he’d just purchased in the late 1980s. “He bought it without me knowing,” Mickey recalls. “My first impression was, ‘What are we going to do with this?’” But that one frangipani tree, growing beside an historic sandstone cottage, planted a seed of inspiration in her mind. “The property, surrounded by beautiful hills, is quite enchanting,” she says. “I was very young and I had soil to put my hands into, which was unbelievably exciting. I had never had the opportunity to garden before.” And so the labour of love that was restoring Glenmore House and surrounds began.
At the time, Mickey was an interior designer with her own company, Mickey…
