The relationships that have flourished in these neighbouring gardens are easily as cherished as the plants that grow in them. There are nearly four decades of memories here - friendships have been forged, families have grown and the land itself has been reshaped and replanted, but there has never been a fence separating the two properties and, so long as the present owners remain, there never will be.Architect Pip Cheshire and his wife Aileen came to their cottage in this tiny back street tucked away in Auckland's Freemans Bay in the late 1970s."It was all we could afford at the time," says Aileen. "It had been a student flat for 30 years so it was a case of pulling up the carpet and killing all the rats."
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