The English Garden

Out of This World

eaders with long memories may well recall a time in 2016, when a pair of charming young men took to our screens for the BBC2 series. Jack Wallington, who was then just a few months into his RHS Level 2 course, and his partner, Chris, had big plans for the tiny (6m x 5m) garden of their Clapham flat, a paved yard with a single raised bed running across the back. Under the guiding light of presenter Monty Don – “I still can’t believe how lucky we were there,” says Jack – the duo duly transformed it into a ‘dahlia and fern-tastic, neon jungle

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