Topiary giraffes, a statue of David, a sunken tram and a Parthenon-style edifice feature in artist David Wadelton’s homage to unusual front yards.
There’s a tiger riding on the head of a life-sized concrete elephant, a gargantuan pumpkin, a menagerie of topiary animals, a bear, an apricot coloured stag and two dinosaurs that have invaded the nature strip.The front yard has become a tourist attraction; visitors pull out their phones and 76-year-old Chu – who is often out the front pruning – invites them to wander around and explore.
Vito Di Benedetto says his father, Ignazio, a retired plasterer who still lives in the Reservoir home, built the fountain from scratch in the late 1960s. Instead, he takes us to Clifton Hill, where beribboned naked female statues flank the gate of the home of Gracie Addamo. One of the statues was beheaded by a passerby and Addamo replaced it with the head of a Cabbage Patch Kids doll.
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