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Garden designer Michael Cooke is a real plantsman. At 11-years-old he would ride his skateboard down to the local plant nursery after school and help out, and when he was 22, he bought the business.
Michael’s 10 acre property in Central Mangrove on the Central Coast of NSW is a ‘botanical garden lab’, filled with a diverse range of plants, a dam, pontoon, chook house and much more.
Our gardens columnist, Georgina Reid of The Planthunter recently caught up with Michael to learn a little more about the garden he has spent 28 years creating.
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