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Exotic Gift

The story of the new Arid Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne is anything but dry. A tale of vandals, expeditions to South America boyhood fascinations, shipments of exotic and rare plants that had never been seen before and everything coming back to where it began.

Renowned landscape architect Andrew Laidlaw has created an inward-spiralling, modern Parterre garden to celebrate this

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