{"id":13032,"date":"2016-05-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-theres-no-reason-why-someone-in-a-wheelchair-cannot-design-beautiful-gardens\/"},"modified":"2016-05-14T17:09:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T10:09:05","slug":"me-and-my-garden-theres-no-reason-why-someone-in-a-wheelchair-cannot-design-beautiful-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-theres-no-reason-why-someone-in-a-wheelchair-cannot-design-beautiful-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and my garden: \u2018There\u2019s no reason why someone in a wheelchair cannot design beautiful gardens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGarden designer Mark Lane on his plot in Canterbury, KentWhen I have been at my desk all day or out on site in clients\u2019 gardens, I love coming back to my own garden. It\u2019s a wonderful cliche, but I eat, live, sleep and dream about plants.Our 1960s bungalow, which we moved to eight years ago, is set in the centre of the plot, which is just under an acre. The garden was stuck in the 60s \u2013 lawns, large conifer beds. I am designing it from scratch \u2013 section by section. I have a wonderful civil partner, Jasen, who helps me out, as well as some very good friends who come over and do the digging; but I still do a lot of the pruning and planting myself. I\u2019ve introduced wide paths, beds I can access from my wheelchair, and I have some privet hedging that I trim while seated in my chair. In the early evening I like to go out in the garden and dabble. I love getting my fingers into the soil, and pulling plants out to see how they are growing: I lay them out on a table and examine them. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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