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The early 20th Century landscape designer Edna Walling purchased of land at Mooroolbark and built her first home from local and second hand materials.

This home was named Sonning, after Gertrude Jekyll's Deanery Garden, Sonning, an English garden she had visited.

Her property is now the Bickleigh Vale Estate in the eastern part of Mooroolbark, which is a private residential area but in the past has been open for public display as part of Australia's Open Garden Scheme.

A stencil art representation of her is located at the Mooroolbark Community Centre.