CREATE AN AFRICAN GARDEN

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Fancy growing spectacular and unusual South African plants but worried your garden is not a jungle? Keran Barrett explains how. A thatched African hut is not what you'd normally expect to find in Sydney's outer suburbs—even if the area is rural, Andit's the uniqueness of the gardens within this council-managed property that surprises visitors the most at Fagan Park. The Fagan family homestead of Netherby Cottage and its surrounds—which were once a citrus orchard and then a Jersey cattle farm—havebeen donated by Bruce Fagan to Hornsby Shire Council's Department of Lands, Adopted as their Bicentennial celebration project and officially opened to the public in 1988, it is now a recreational park and cultural centre spanning 55 hectares at Galston(part of the Hawkesbury River region).