AA-2026-6BF4FD
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A suburban Florida homeowner has achieved what the era promised: a lush, verdant enclosure between white-walled houses, all tropical exuberance contained within property lines and manicured sight lines. Palmettos and dense shrubery create the illusion of private jungle, the kind of landscape that required genuine effort in a climate where things either thrived or burned—there was no middle ground. The houses visible beyond the vegetation are modest, mid-century residential stock, the type built in post-war Florida developments where the selling point was not size but the fantasy of escape: bring nature into your yard, stay in your subdivision. The whole arrangement bespeaks a faith in human horticultural control that the 1970s still possessed without irony—the belief that if you planted enough and pruned enough, you could have both wilderness and order, both privacy and community, both here and elsewhere, all at once. The green is so complete it nearly obscures the neighbors.
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Florida Residential Garden, circa 1970s. 1965–1980. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-6BF4FD. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/florida-residential-garden-circa-1970s.
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