The Carriageway Borders
The first part of the garden encountered when entering the property from Bronte Road is an extensive border surrounding a circular lawn with a Norfolk Island pine in the middle. When the house was built, this was the carriage drive. Its bordering beds have been planted with a rich variety of shrubs, mostly conforming to an overall colour scheme of orange and purple with paler versions of these colours, apricots and lilacs, also incorporated.

The white and yellow borders
One of a number of specially constructed arches (of Gothic design) leads the visitor to a short walk through two wide borders planted with a rich mix of plants with white and yellow flowers. A second arch both marks the end of this walk and frames a fine view of the Pacific Ocean beyond. Notable plants in this area are Dietes robinsoniana from Lord Howe Island, clumps of Crinum pedunculatum, Melianthus major, Rudbeckis californica California Humulus lupulus aureus, the golden hop, and two white wisteria. Trained along wires on the north-facing wall of the house is a rare vine, Thunbergia mysoriensis, with spectacular long racemes bearing saffron yellow and Indian red cupped flowers.

The Eastern Terrace
The eastern front of the house faces the sea. A small flight of sandstone steps flanked by two pedestals with marble urns leads down to a large flat expanse of lawn. This is enclosed by a bamboo fence in the Victorian style and by a long narrow bed of agapanthus underplanted with orange cosmos. To the right is a semi-circular bed, planted in the high Victorian style with a large variety of colourful flowering plants and ornamental grasses. Echiums, bronze castor oil plants, old-fashioned mauve lantana and alstromeria are some of the plants to be found here. The back of the bed through which a path meanders is planted with numerous superb varieties of canna to make a Canna Walk with some of the plants towering above the visitor as he or she passes through this evocative Victorian style walk.

The Succulent Garden
Three paths lead from the main garden to smaller garden areas to the south and north. The most obvious method of descent is via the pathway leading to the fountain and the surrounding hippeastrum garden. If one makes a left turn here, one drops quickly into a garden reminiscent of those on the French and Italian Riviera. Like them, it's on a steep site, makes much use of rocks and is largely created with succulent plants. Euphorbias, Dracena draco and a rich variety of furcreas, yuccas, agaves, aloes and cacti are to be seen here with the giant bamboo planted by Georgiana Lowe towering overhead and providing a stunning background. Steps carved from live rock wind through this area providing a fascinating circuit and interesting aspects of the garden and gully for the visitor. For many, this is the most dramatic and striking section of the garden.

The Lover's Walk
This name appears in the brochure advertising the 1882 sub-division of the property and is described as "a romantic and shaded walk parallel with the ravine running towards the sea". A number of rain-forest trees and plants are to be found here along with shady ferns and palms. The ground underneath has been planted with more than 3000 orange clivias and with some rarer specimens as well, including the prized yellow clivia. This part of the garden is spectacular in August and September.