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'Slow gardening' a growing trend 
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Saturday, May 24 2008 00:50:40 by Emily Jenkins
Emily Jenkins writes: 'Slow gardening', whereby green-fingered folks are more inclined to grow things from seed, is set to become a long-term trend.
That is the opinion of Andrew Fisher Tomlin, horticultural editor of Wallpaper magazine, who has asserted that the current unstable state of the UK's economy means that more people will start to grow their own.
Speaking at the Garden Design Forum of the Chelsea Flower Show, Mr Fisher Tomlin said that hard landscaped gardens will give way to softer spaces which have more fruit trees and vegetable patches, GleeWire reported.
He said: "Last year at Chelsea we actually saw surprisingly few slow gardens but this is definitely a long-term trend as people reconnect with their gardens. We are seeing people build exercise areas and a whole new concept of growing slowly using small trees rather than putting big specimens in."
Mr Tomlin went on to say that gardens will become more "romantic" as a result of the tighter financial conditions in the country.
"Something we are beginning to see quite a lot is a new romanticism among gardeners, country gardens and wildlife gardens have been really, really popular, it’s sort of like the new romantics are back, perhaps it’s like the early 80s again."
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