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Creative, professional garden design and planting projects.  Every garden we create is utterly unique, utilising rare and unusual plants and landscaping forms.  

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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016

 

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I get by with a little help from my friends!
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I get by with a little help from my friends!
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I was home in North Wales this weekend lifting giant glacial boulders by crane with my Dad - a test run for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show next month.  His business,  GreenWood Forest Park, an award winning eco-adventure park, have not only allowed us to pinch several, several tonne rocks from their land but have helped support my Chelsea endeavour enormously from the start! 

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An interview with Two Thirsty Gardeners
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Stay playful - taste is the enemy of creativity
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Stay playful - taste is the enemy of creativity
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Picasso once said: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after he grows up."

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Your house is a cliff
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Your house is a cliff
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Think like a plant.  Go on, give it a try.  I've found that peering at the urban environment from a plant's perspective seems to make them a lot happier.

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Ta Da!
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Ta Da!
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The Propagating Dan studio has been working hard with a couple of wonderful clients & superb photographer Oskar Proktor to bring you a new website!

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Tidbits

Fused courgettes by the river #jumeauxcourgette
Houseleeks in an urn at Plas Newydd. So simple and effective. Coincidentally we're doing the same, placed under a hornbeam arch in an Oxford design.
❤️ the rocks of Snowdonia
650,000,000 year-old pyramidal pillow lava. A part of our finished archaeologically-geologically- horticulturally- arrived-at piece for the national Eisteddfod. "Y lle celf", "the art place", in shadows. Crested Dog's Tail grass gently snakes over the mound. . . . #anglesey #national #eisteddfod #gardendesign #nativeplants
Feijoa in my woods today
This is what happens when you attack a Foxglove Tree. It retaliates from being cut back hard by growing insanely huge leaves. You don't get the pretty flowers though. . . . #pawlonia #foxglovetree #bigleaves
Planting coming along at the Eisteddfod. Anglesey natives Marram grass and Sea Holly from the west side 🖖🏽, Lyme grass from the East 🤙🏽. . . #anglesey #nationaleisteddfod #gardendesign #archaeology #geology #marramgrass #leymusarenarius
Kalimeris incisa, Zanthoxylum ailanthoides and a Miscanthus transmorrisonensis grown from seed I collected on Xue Shan, Taiwan's second tallest mountain, in my garden
Pretty/productive veg patch in full swing. Especially into the purple almost black French beans

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