Gardens Illustrated Magazine

A FAMILY AFFAIR

IN BRIEF

Name The Family Garden.
 What Eclectic garden with a mix of perennials, shrubs and endemic grasses.
 Where Victoria, Australia.
 Size Approximately two acres.
 Soil Volcanic basalt/clay.
 Climate Temperate.
 Hardiness zone USDA 10.

Speak to most greenfingered people and you'll soon hear of a parent or grandparent who passed on their love of gardening: a greenhouse overflowing with begonias, a rambling country garden, a productive suburban vegetable patch – gardens are threads connecting people, plants and place over generations.

Rarely, though, are all four members of the one immediate family horticulturists,

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