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Formal garden

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Formal garden

This garden in the Manawatū is designed along simple, formal lines, with box hedging separating lawn from beds of iceberg roses. The spiky yuccas in pots provide a vertical contrast to the strong horizontal layout.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Gardens – Private gardens in the 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18883/formal-garden (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.