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Natural Flow

WHEN A HOME is bulldozed and rebuilt, the garden is often sacrificed in the wreck. In the case of Marg and Warwick Hutchins’ new build in Point Lonsdale, on the tip of Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula on Wadawurrung Country, the retirees were clear they wanted to retain aspects of the property’s existing garden and as many trees as possible.

When Marg, 78, and Warwick, 79, purchased the spacious coastal block in 2015, the established garden – and its eclectic collection

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