Gardens Illustrated Magazine

JUNGLE GIANTS

A row of terraced houses in suburban Surrey provides the unlikely setting for a truly extraordinary garden. Hidden in a valley just behind them lies a tropical forest of leafy bananas, palms, cannas, bromeliads and angel's trumpets dripping with fragrant yellow lanterns – just some of the delights that await visitors to Jack Salway's botanical masterpiece.

A former senior lecturer in medical biochemistry, Jack and his wife Nicky moved to the beautiful village of Chiddingfold 45 years ago. “I was looking for a garden with a house in it,” he says. “So, when we found this

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