The water is fringed by ferny groves and pond-dotted gardens that nurture azaleas, camellias, hydrangeas, ginger lilies and endangered cycad trees.

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Inside the courtyard, bluestone pavers and grass crisscross on the ground and Italian cypresses, olive trees, rosemary bushes and boxwoods serve as the backdrop to lilies, jasmine, hydrangeas and delphiniums.

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The brown heads of hydrangeas bobbed in the wind.

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Look what she did with the hydrangeas.

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