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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

Stunning mystery plant in our garden. Think I grew it from collected seed years ago. Autumn-flowering with matching leaf tones. Plectranthus perchance?
Kein filter today in the wisdom garden, near Salzburg. The team there are doing a wonderful job realising its potential.
Mum with some Anglesey woodland-grown bananas! Not edible but the flowers might work in a Sri-Lankan type dish, will investigate..
Planting Foxtail Lilies. They need super good drainage, so we plant them on a halo of gravel, before lightly covering the whole thing with soil. I've seen them in the wild in Turkey and Kyrgyzstan where they seem to prefer growing in almost pure gravel. . . . . #eremurus #planting #bulbs #foxtaillily
Tbt 1 year ago in šŸ‡³šŸ‡µ Nepal šŸ‡³šŸ‡µ
Last one of this garden for now. Nice choice of Hay furniture for the raised deck, and the Forest Pansy is in full autumnal throes. . . . . #gardendesign #london #friezemasters #frieze #gratuitoushashtagging
Hidden fernery under the raised IpƩ deck has worked out really nicely. It is misted to keep it moist all year. Only visible from lower seating area. . . . . . #gardendesign #fernery #schefflera
Planted this garden in April. So happy to see how it's developed! Surprised myself with plants I'd forgotten putting in around each corner. . . . . #gardendesign #london #gunnera #plantingdesign #cercis
Evening sun on the living pergola. These Mulberries are a sterile variety so there won't be any messy fruit drop. . . . #gardendesign #pergola #mulberry #oxford #outdoorliving

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