Australian House & Garden

TIERS OF JOY

Every morning, Melbourne homeowner Melissa looks out at her garden and smiles. “It’s heaven,” she says. It’s an understandable response. Hugging her home in every direction, the garden is a layered and luxurious buffer to the outside world. And by late spring, when the star jasmine and 71 white hydrangeas begin popping into flower, the garden turns into a phosphorescent, scented wonderland. It is, indeed,

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