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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Adeshola Ore

Kerbside ferns and vertical gardens: transforming Melbourne’s ‘grotty’ laneways into urban oases

The owner of Brick Lane cafe in Guildford Lane Lindsay Bull.
Cafe owner Lindsay Bull loves the new-look laneways. Photograph: Ellen Smih/The Guardian

A jasmine plant climbs up a red brick facade towards the sunlight in Melbourne’s Guildford Lane.

Planted by the laneway’s residents when it was less than half a metre tall, it now stretches three storeys above the narrow kerb not far from the centre of the CBD.

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