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What Makes A Great British Pub Garden?
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Tom Massey, award winning garden designer, discusses the place of the pub garden in Britain and how it is evolving over time.
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pub gardens are a beloved institution and they are evolving i spoke to tom massey an award-winning
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pub garden designer i asked him what makes a great british pub garden i think a great british pub
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garden is is really about a space to spend time with friends to be outside to be surrounded by
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nature i think it's really interesting actually chase research from chase spirit shows that uh
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51 of people believe that the experience of a pub garden can't be replicated anywhere else
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and a further 57 say it's really the cornerstone of british culture which i i really agree with i
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i've spent so much time in pub gardens with friends you know just being outside surrounded by nature
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with uh you know wherever you are whether you're in a city whether you're in the countryside they're
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just spaces to bring people together like you say they're being surrounded by nature do you think
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that's why pub gardens hold such a special place in british culture being outside and surrounded by
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nature as well as having friends around yeah i think we're a nation of gardeners and i think
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our nature connection is so important to us as as a culture and i think um often if you know if you
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live in a city or you live in an urban environment that access to nature can feel uh sometimes a bit
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lost so going to a pub garden spending time with your friends connecting socially but also feeling more
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connected with the natural world i think is a really good way just to to recharge and to refresh yourself
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how in your opinion are pub gardens evolving and changing i think um well i think you know through
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lockdowns and through um the covid crisis there was a lot more emphasis placed on the importance of our
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green spaces and i think in in the uk you know we're lucky to have such good quality public parks and
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public green space and i'd include pub gardens in that you know we are as i said a nation of gardeners we
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really value our outside space and we have a lot of um you know skill and knowledge and expertise so i
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think pubs and pub gardens provide another space for people to connect outside to spend time with friends
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to you know to share food to share a drink to you know to do the things that i suppose we love the
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most to to engage socially but also just to be outside one thing that is often underestimated is the
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power of plants to do things like cool the air so as plants draw moisture from the soil they they
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release that moisture into the air so they actually have a cooling effect tom thank you very much for
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very much for your time thank you
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