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It's always interesting to earwig on conversations at a flower show, you can't really help it when there are so many visitors, and everyone's got their own ideas as to what makes a great show garden or exhibit. One comment I hear time and time again is how inspiring the gardens are and how they're going to try to copy 'that' colour scheme or 'this' style of planting. The thing that I'm going to take away and copy from this years show is not plants but paths.
The back to back gardens are very good for hard landscaping ideas and I spotted a brick edged path in-filled with pebbles stuck into concrete, much like a mosaic. Or, there's a stone path with grass instead of mortar and something more contemporary, a metal grid suspended over a bog garden - almost like a bridge. However, the one that I'm going to copy at home is the path in 'The Garden for Bees'. It's a gravel path planted with an informal drift of thyme, which smells as good as it looks. The good news for me is that I've already got a gravel path, all I have to do is add the 'thyme' and once the flower show is over, I'll have the 'time' to do it. 
Left overs of a once beautiful jungle. Look at the 2 higher trees on the right size. The you see how small all other tress in this jungle are ...
The 2 higher trees left are nothing but the smallest jungle trees that were too small to be profitable just a few years ago when looting and logging had its peak and most of Cambodian's jungle got lost in the greed of politics and money hungry businessmen.
The real jungle trees I encountered mid seventies where multiple the size of the 2 highest ones in this photo. Jungle trees take 500 and more years to grow. Jungle needs thousands of years to create the natural balance, beauty and strength - and only a few years to be completely destroyed again by mankind.
Logging in this very park still goes on these very months. Just a few hundred meters away from this photo place approximately one hectare of jungle has been looted just recently with death drying branches still all over the bottom of the luted area.
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