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What Private garden that combines a mix of formal and informal planting and cloud pruned shrubs and trees. Where Victoria, Australia. Size 10,500 square metres. Soil Sand with a pH of 9.5. Climate Mild temperate climate. Hardiness zone USDA 10a.

To the front of this private garden, which backs on to the Mornington Peninsula National Park, designer Jane Jones has created a tapestry of colours using low-growing shrubs, perennials and succulents, including spiky Furcraea bedinghausii and a row of Cupressus sempervirens ‘Glauca’ that subtly screen the house.

 ander along the dunes behind the ocean beach at Portsea, the western tip of the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, and you may well be blown away. By beauty, yes, but also by

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