00:00What it is, it's taking the principles behind Chinese design and applying them to our English,
00:14I say contemporary garden design.
00:16But if you look at a Chinese garden, well, they're reflecting their landscape.
00:21If we were to superimpose a Chinese garden here, we're not reflecting our landscape.
00:26These fundamental principles of Chinese design have underpinned, really, what we do in British
00:34garden design for a long time.
00:36So many plants that we take for granted are Chinese.
00:41I can just list them, but it would take me to the end of the film to list them all.
00:45But a good one is a chrysanthemum, magnolia, camellia, hollyhock, hydrangea.
00:54I mean, the hydrangea, though, it's so British, it's so synonymous with the British garden, right?
01:02So you think of Georgian London as being sort of, you know, brick-coloured.
01:07And then the Chinese plants, all of those would bring colour that you've never seen before.
01:12Yeah, it's funny, you're talking there and there's a rich smell of flowers in the air right now.
01:19And I'm wondering which one of these that is.
01:21God, it's beautiful, isn't it?
01:23That's where it's coming from.
01:25All the way down the street.
01:26God, that's amazing.
01:27You can smell that from all the way down the other side of the street.
01:33That is amazing, isn't it?
01:34It's intoxicating.
01:35Oh my gosh.
01:37And that is a gift, not just everybody who lives here, but everyone just passing through.
01:42Nature is public, by definition.
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