Australian Gardens for a Changing Climate

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“...When the garden's owner and designer, Caroline Dawes, and her family moved to the Adelaide property eight years ago they inherited a 'typical suburban garden'... The first thing to go was most of the cypress hedge, with only a section left around the existing swimming pool ... Most of the paving was lifted and nearly all of the lawn was removed, with just a few token patches retained for Caroline's two boys and their dog to romp on. They now serve important purpose of catching run-off from surrounding remnant paved surfaces, and receive no other water apart from natural rainfall. Hedges were planted to define various garden beds: a trimmed orange jessamine hedge inside the front fence, with dwarf Japanese spindle bush enclosing the from garden beds. Encircling a small sitting area outside the master bedroom is a low, clipped hedge of grey-green germander...”

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