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rivaled by the rear garden and swimming pool set beside a pierced
brick wall, painted white, pool house and engaged porch. Here,
tall arborvitae and pruned hedges, wedding-cake perfect, and heady
Confederate jasmine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, tease the senses.
Once through the classic iron gate, the combined textures of podocar-pus,
Podocarpus macrophyllus, Korean boxwood and fragrant tea olive,
Osmanthus fragrans, screen the view. There is a forced pause — the
eyes close, too — as the powerful scents of fragrant tea olive and winter
daphne, Daphne odora ‘Aureo-marginata’, hint of the pleasures beyond.
Huge, oversized pots — a brilliant use of scale in a small
garden — surround the pool and hold sub-tropical pindo palms,
Butia capitata, and loquats, Eriobotrya japonica. These plants are
repeated elsewhere in the garden. Sago palms, Cycas revoluta,
and windmill palms, Trachycarpus fortunei, add subtropical flair
and bold textures. Unusual umbrella-shaped topiaries form in
pots along the back of the house and host precisely pruned
climbing roses. At each turn, charming garden vignettes await
the eye and allure.
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