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Article: Tropical punch: a blooming bayfront garden showcases a historic home.
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- Sarasota Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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Talk about a dream tenant. John Wheeler lived in the sweet little clapboard cottage on Anne and Frank Folsom Smiths two-acre bayfront property for 10 years, and over the course of the decade he transformed the acreage into a tropical wonderland.
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It helps that former tenant Wheeler is a landscape designer who works on some of the highest-end homes in the region and travels across Florida collecting unusual plant species.
It also helps that the Folsom Smith property is abundantly romantic--built on an Indian midden 20 feet above sea level, with a rolling lawn that ends on a palm-fringed ...