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\u00a9 Andrea Jones<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>What started as a hobby soon, in Lisa\u2019s words, got out of hand. With only a concrete yard behind her home, in 2012 she rented a semi-derelict plot of land nearby where she could keep her expanding collection.\n
Then, to fund the purchase of the rare species that she coveted, Lisa began to sell some of the plants she had already propagated. The business may have begun almost by accident, but word spread among her fellow plant nerds, who couldn\u2019t get enough of her pink dandelions<\/a> and fancy thistles, and it rapidly skyrocketed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAndrew and I knew we had to move to find more space, and we were happy to get out of the city, but it took us a couple of years to find the right place.\u201d In fact, when Andrew first showed her the property details of their current home, Lisa was so convinced it was the wrong place that she resisted even visiting it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe farm was basically a blank canvas,\u201d she says. \u201cAn overgrazed field, horribly tortured hedges<\/a>, and a house I didn\u2019t like the look of. But there were also five acres of woodland and the minute I walked into them I felt a strong sense that I had to protect them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nine years on, a lot has changed. The scalped field has gradually reverted to wildflower meadow<\/a> and the hedges have relaxed beautifully. The air now thrums with bee<\/a> and insect<\/a> activity, and 19 more species of bird<\/a> have been recorded in recent years. Lisa and Andrew have welcomed their soaring wildlife<\/a> population, from damselflies to swallows, with one significant exception: deer.<\/p>\n
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Nettles, umbels and thistles all thrive naturally in the heavy clay soil here. Other things, including Lisa\u2019s precious collection of rare, Chinese, high-alpine<\/a> plants, which can\u2019t cope with such rich living, are grown in raised beds<\/a>, where they appreciate the free-draining conditions.<\/p>\n
Lisa will find a way of growing anything that catches her attention. \u201cI think I have\na good eye for plants and I\u2019m a big foliage<\/a> person. I can look at a little woodland<\/a>\nplant and fully lose myself in its detail for five minutes at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n
She knows that some traditional gardeners would class many of the plants on her sales list as weeds<\/a>. \u201cI would just say to them, don\u2019t let whole groups of plants be tarnished by the same brush. They don\u2019t all behave like the notorious ones, and so many are really beautiful, garden-worthy plants.\u201d<\/p>\n
The full version of this feature appeared in Gardens Illustrated<\/em> magazine. Subscribe here<\/a><\/p>\n
www.growildnursery.co.uk<\/a><\/h3> <\/body><\/html>\n
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