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Out of this world

Sometimes the magic element that lifts a garden and its home to extraordinary heights is hiding in plain sight.

In Maureen Tan and Stephan Peters’ immersive, resort-style garden, there are secrets to be discovered everywhere. Deep in the thick of their sub-tropical tapestry of colour and texture, there is no discernible back boundary, no hard edges en route from front to back.

There is nothing to jar your eye wherever it falls. Unless you peer under a leaf, that is. And it’s only then that you’ll see soil.

This is the magic that Stephan Peters, an IT project

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