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Pic: DawnHeaver/BNPS<br />
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Pictured: Filling the new lake with water. <br />
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A green-fingered couple who have spent 20 years building an incredible Japanese-themed garden behind their bungalow home are showing it off to the public to raise funds for charity.<br />
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Dawn and Terry Heaver, who have never even visited Japan, began cultivating the three-quarter-acre plot after being inspired by a visit to a nearby botanical gardens.<br />
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Their secluded garden in the village of St Ives, Dorset, is now enclosed by evergreen trees and features a waterfall, an ornamental 5,000sq ft lake, two shinto torii gates, an Oriental pergoda and Japanese stone ornaments including a tiered tower and foo dogs.