Surrounded by tanks filled with wafting greenery, twisted pieces of driftwood and shoals of tiny fish, George Farmer explains why aquascaping – “landscape gardening underwater” – is growing in popularity. “Humans respond to colour, movement and water; aquascaping has all three,” he says. “Creating and maintaining an underwater world is therapeutic. It lowers the heart rate and reduces blood pressure. It enriches people’s lives.”
Fellow enthusiasts attending his workshop (and watching it live on his YouTube channel, which has over 59,000 subscribers) hang on to his every word. It’s easy to see why: George is the UK’s foremost aquascaper and talks about creating “natural underwater habitats” with an enthusiasm that is almost evangelical. Which is understandable when you learn that aquascaping helped him to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder following a…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2019