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LEARNING CURVES

AS A GARDEN DESIGNER and topiarist, Kurt Wilkinson has spent the last two decades meticulously sculpting formal gardens throughout Adelaide and the surrounding districts. But when it comes to his own garden on a four-hectare property at One Tree Hill north of Adelaide, he experiments with a mix of structured and unstructured plantings.

“I want the most extreme juxtaposition that I can come up with: perfect formal elements and then just chaos, really, with something new happening every week or season

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