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From the Landscape Juice Network newsletter:"Matthew Wilson tells me he will wait until the end of the current series before entering into a debate - I'll try to make sure he doesn't forget but since the last show brought further critical comments from professional garden designers and garden design teachers, I suspect there will be a defensive public relations' offensive."An interesting concept - defensive public relations' offensive. Is this better than an 'offensive public relations defensive' - ah, the vagaries of the English language!I watched the programme about the Suffolk man - missed the beginning so where did he get his money? - and thought the Chelsea design was a mess, certainly didn't suit the property and the man was a fool who would be soon parted with his money if he wasn't careful. However, I applauded his approach to the total concept of what he was trying to achieve with his numerous acres and would like to be around in fifty years time to see its maturity.Many of the gardens and estates that we love today surely started out just like this. I was down at Chilham Castle a week or two ago and saw what the then immensely wealthy mine owner Sir Edmund Davis created in the late 1930's and admired his foresight even though he would never enjoy its splendour to the full.By the way, the Barbara Everard memoirs (and she was Lady Davis' companion then) are nearly ready for publication - only half a dozen more chapters to transcribe and illustrations to scan in. If anyone wants a preview in exchange for some comments, please let me know.Martin Everard
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  • Martin - I'd love a preview of the memoirs! Please.
  • Cat, Many thanks.
    Send me an email address that will accept a 5.5mb attachment and I will forward it to you. Mine is mreverard@btinternet.com.
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    Just for the record and to avoid any confusion - Martin is quoting a paragraph from the Landscape Juice Network newsletter and not the Landscape Man newsletter mentioned at the head of this blog post - the internal newsletter was sent out by me, Philip Voice, as part of our weekly service and refers to email conversations I've had with the Landscape Man presenter, Matthew Wilson.
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