Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p David Glenn is a plantsman and leading exponent of Dry Climate Gardening in Australia. His garden Lambley is located at Ascot, 12 km North of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The development of the garden coincided with the prolonged drought experienced throughout much of Eastern Australia over the period 2000 to 2010 and earlier. At the same time, the garden was recognised internationally for its innovative use of plant types and forms. It also represented one of the first really considered responses to the challenges of gardening in the Australian climate without resorting to native plantings. David was born in the UK to a family with gardening in its blood. He emigrated to Australia in the 1960s. David and his botanical painter wife, Criss Canning, established Lambley in 1987. The name of the garden refers to Glenn's childhood home, Lambley Village in Nottinghamshire in the United Kingdom.Glenn is widely acknowledged as developing the exemplar for dry climate gardening in the southern hemisphere. Indeed, the Australian designer, Paul Bangay has described Lambley as "One of the most famous" dry perennial gardens in the world.In another example of the high regard that the garden is held in it was described as 'one of the best examples of gardening with perennials' in the world by a leading gardening magazine in New Zealand.. }
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- David_Glenn_(garden_designer) abstract "David Glenn is a plantsman and leading exponent of Dry Climate Gardening in Australia. His garden Lambley is located at Ascot, 12 km North of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The development of the garden coincided with the prolonged drought experienced throughout much of Eastern Australia over the period 2000 to 2010 and earlier. At the same time, the garden was recognised internationally for its innovative use of plant types and forms. It also represented one of the first really considered responses to the challenges of gardening in the Australian climate without resorting to native plantings. David was born in the UK to a family with gardening in its blood. He emigrated to Australia in the 1960s. David and his botanical painter wife, Criss Canning, established Lambley in 1987. The name of the garden refers to Glenn's childhood home, Lambley Village in Nottinghamshire in the United Kingdom.Glenn is widely acknowledged as developing the exemplar for dry climate gardening in the southern hemisphere. Indeed, the Australian designer, Paul Bangay has described Lambley as "One of the most famous" dry perennial gardens in the world.In another example of the high regard that the garden is held in it was described as 'one of the best examples of gardening with perennials' in the world by a leading gardening magazine in New Zealand.".