Backyard and Outdoor Living

The secret garden

A modern home needs an equally modern garden — or does it? The owners of this architectural masterpiece in Toorak, Melbourne, were looking for a garden with a lush and diverse planting palette to soften, yet complement, the strong structural lines and off-form concrete of their expansive home.

When designing their dream outdoor space, the owners and their architects wanted to create “a poetic garden of structured chaos”. They hired landscape architects T.C.L (Taylor

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