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Deep in the harbourside Sydney suburb of Vaucluse lies a secret garden. Amble past the private tennis court, through a vine-covered archway along a mossy path, and you step out onto a lawn so lush it feels like the plush carpet of a luxury hotel. Towering palms sway gently in the morning breeze as lorikeets flit between olive and frangipani trees.
“We very deliberately mixed European, tropical and native plants,” says landscape designer Naomi Barin of Sydney firm Dangar Barin Smith, which devised the secluded enclave with Weir Phillips Architects, which worked on the old Hollywood-style house.
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