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Today our gardens columnist Georgina Reid has another sweet Sydney garden to share.
What was once a mass of concrete and brick tucked away behind a former TV and radio repair shop in Sydney’s Forest Lodge, has, in four years, been transformed by owners Sarah Nolan and Gavin Perrin into a lush outdoor space. Here, under clumps of ferns, palm and papyrus foliage are all manner of hidden treasures – including salvaged bricks and bottles, a friendly garden gnome, and concrete mobile phone sculptures by artist Will Coles.
Savvy green thumb David Whitworth has earned a bit of a ‘Plant Man’ reputation, nurturing unwanted specimens back from the brink. This young landscape gardener rewards himself with potted purchases, and lives for tending his share-house lot in central Sydney.
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