Natasha Morgan

Natasha Morgan is an award winning landscape architect by profession and a multi-disciplinary creative collaborator by natural inclination. For a decade Natasha worked on some of Australia’s significant landscape architecture and urban design projects – most notably several years spent managing the design and construction of The Australian Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne. Concurrently she shared her craft as a sessional lecturer in Masters of Landscape Architecture at RMIT and Melbourne Universities.

In 2014 she made a tree change with a purpose to Spargo Creek, a tiny hamlet just outside of Daylesford in the Central Victorian Highlands. Here Natasha transformed a dream into reality, creating Oak and Monkey Puzzle, the internationally renowned design, event and horticultural production
focussed property and its idyllic gardens. Oak and Monkey Puzzle not only provided an evolving special hub for, garden design, artisans and craftspeople by way of workshops, collaborations, and bespoke events. It engendered a warm sense of community, sparked dynamic conversations, fostered collaborative connections, cultivated creativity and provided a place for meeting of the minds.

Natasha is a sought after public speaker, workshop teacher and facilitator, and creative collaboration partner. Natasha shares her inspiring story of tree change, garden design, and country life, through guest speaker events, writing, her workshops, social media following, print and digital media. She has been widely featured both locally and internationally, including Australian Woman’s Weekly, Country Style magazine, Better Homes & Gardens (Channel 7), and recently The Block (Channel 9).

Talk title: Garden Design and the creation of Oak & Monkey Puzzle

For a decade, award winning landscape architect, Natasha Morgan, worked on some of Australia’s most significant landscape architecture and urban design projects – most notably several years spent managing the design and construction of The Australian Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne.

Concurrently she shared her craft as a sessional lecturer in Masters of Landscape Architecture at RMIT and Melbourne Universities. Transforming a dream into reality, in 2014, Natasha left behind her career and life in Melbourne to make a tree change with a purpose in Spargo Creek, a tiny hamlet just outside of Daylesford. It is here she designed and created Oak & Monkey Puzzle, the internationally renowned design, event and horticultural production focussed property and its idyllic gardens.

Oak and Monkey Puzzle not only provided an evolving special hub for garden design, artisans and craftspeople by way of workshops, collaborations, and bespoke events. It engendered a warm sense of community, sparked dynamic conversations, fostered collaborative connections, cultivated creativity and provided a place for meeting of the minds. It is here also that Natasha began her journey creating a way of life she had long yearned for. Rooted in her flower, berry and kitchen gardens, orchards and forest surrounds, she combined her passions, learnt to live with the land, the shifting
seasons, and how to live ‘well’.

Join Natasha as she shares her aspirations, inspirations and garden design for Oak & Monkey Puzzle, and the lessons learnt.

Masterclass: Creating a seasonal flower arrangement of flowers, foliage, seedheads and
branches with Natasha Morgan

When award winning landscape architect Natasha Morgan is not designing her gardens, growing flowers or produce, or bottling preserves, she’s picking seasonal flowers, foliage, seedheads and branches from her garden, local flower farmers, country lanes and roadsides. Join Natasha as she shares her passion for flowers, foraging and the best botanical bits of the seasons, in a demonstration class creating a beautiful seasonal flower arrangement.