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There were also areas of orna- mental woodland planted with Amellanchier and a dark-leaved elderflower. Nigel’s style has often been
referred to as “low input, high impact” and for me the borders at the Barbican were definitely high- impact. There were a number of people enjoying the gardens with me, taking photos, sitting and chat- ting and even playing some music together. This is surely the way we want our cities to be in the future and it was this message that the RHS were pushing through the Chelsea feature.
The Chelsea garden showcased
how important plants and gardens are in an urban area, and that even the smallest spaces count. Most of the planting was again drought- tolerant, but there were also areas of planting for rain water capture which are particularly important as we experience more flash flooding now in urban areas. A frightening statistic I read re-
cently said that more than 25 per cent of people are paving their front gardens – individually this may not sound a lot but the square meter- age of paving like this in a large city creates huge amounts of run-off
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with no provision for capturing the water, which just overflows and floods into drains. The Greening Grey Britain feature
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