A band of Buffalo shade-tolerant lawn is bordered by defined garden beds – on one side, in the shadow of neighbouring townboxes, is a fernery and on the other a formal rectangle of hedged Dutch box and three tall misshapen English box topiary balls. This is the Somewhat White Garden, but really the White-and-Orange Garden – designed to be luminescent at twilight from the back deck of the house. All the plants in this area have either white or orange flowers and the fruit – persimmons, pomegranates, loquats, blood oranges and Washington navels – are all orange in colour. In spring, the formal hedged bed bursts with white hyacinths and freesias, while white daisies flower consistently. Eventually, when fully grown, the garden will end in a hedge of blood oranges and Washington navels that hide an entrance to the Secret Garden beyond, and enclose a wooden post from which the clothesline is drawn.