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stunning exotic and contemporary garden designs for the cooler climate
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| We had a really wild time working for a famous Hollywood Director who wanted to replicate his Los Angeles home here in London. The brief was "Take me to the Jungle" and without the benefit of being at ground level this was accomplished by no less than 126 containers planted with mature architectural exotic plants closely placed together to give a real Indiana Jones feel to this Knightsbridge terrace. Ipe decking and computerised irrigation completed the brief. The micro climate of this sheltered terrace, where frost is almost unheard of, enabled us to be more adventurous with our choice of plants. Apart from the trusted bamboos, trachycarpus palms, fatsias etc which made up the backbone of the scheme, we were able to include specimen strelizia nicolai, phoenix roebelenii, huge rhapis excelsa (Lady Palms), alocasias and other truly exotic plants. There are some London gardens where you could almost grow any tropical plant and this was certainly one of them. The end result was a stunning Amazon jungle of foliage transporting you to a land way beyond the drabness of Central London.
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