Moolah was on The Boulevarde, Strathfield, and was a large single story Federation-era home constructed of brick with wooden fretwork on sandstone foundations.
At that time many privileged young women spent the years between school and marriage at home playing cards and tennis, attending tea parties and sailing on Sydney harbour.
After marriage she settled with her husband on a property between Hillston and Ivanhoe, New South Wales, where the rainfall is 250 millimeters in a good year, the soil a sandy loam and summer temperatures reach 40 Celsius for days at a time.
[8] Carr had enormous influence on rural garden making on the south-west slopes and plains of New South Wales in area like Binalong, Galong, Harden, and Young.
The homestead garden that Carr created for Rhonda and Bill Daly at Milgadara is only a small part of that 1182 hectare property 20 km east of the town of Young but is integral to the way three generations of that family manage their thriving mixed-farming enterprise.