Garden of the week: Banks Peninsula garden a "haven away from home"

In 2008, a group of English High Court judges deemed the Oxford Dictionary definition of a garden ("an enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit or vegetables") to be inadequate. The essence of a garden, they proclaimed, included "the relationship between the owner and the land and the history and character of the land and space". Nowhere could this be more true than at Annandale, Mark and Jacqui Palmer's property in remote Pigeon Bay on Banks Peninsula, which is steeped in history and has been moulded both by the elements and its inhabitants. 

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