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06.02.2022 - 11:01 / starobserver.com.au
Jason Chongue and Nathan Smith were featured in Domain back in November 2017. But since then, they’ve been running a gardening business which has helped their love for plants grow.At the time, Jason had released a coffee table book about plants called Plant Society: Create an Indoor Oasis for your Urban Space.
The gardening business takes its name from this book.The pair used to live in Abbotsford where they surrounded themselves with and cultivated a variety of plants. They now live in Ballarat and split their time between the small town and the big city. The Plant Society has three stores: Collingwood, Melbourne, Paddington, Sydney and Tokyo, Japan. “Our clientele up [in Sydney is] quite often older people, older couples, more wealthy clients in that particular area,” Nathan says when speaking about the eastern Sydney suburb of Paddington. “In Collingwood we’ll get – it feels like a lot of everybody – so, a lot of younger people I guess is the main demographic we get coming through, but we get a lot of traffic through with older people from all walks of life.” “Our following is quite diverse,” Jason says.
“And then I think the difference is feeding into the stereotype is gay men are better at styling, or more kind of in tune with design, and so we’re probably seeing more featured accounts from people who can design and style.” He describes the Collingwood and Fitzroy areas as a queer and plant “Mecca.” “We have a lot of South Yarra clients come in,” he says. “But I think because there are some plant stores in South Yarra, but not kind of as many as Northside.”Nathan grew up in regional Victoria and is “excited” to be closer to his family.
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The Terminal List,” a new thriller series starring Chris Pratt, will premiere on Prime Video July 1, the streamer announced Thursday.Based on the novel of the same name by Jack Carr, “The Terminal List” follows James Reece (Pratt), a Navy SEAL who returns to civilian life after his team is ambushed during a high-stakes mission. Struggling with conflicting memories of the event, Reece soon has to go back to action when he discovers threats against his family and loved ones.Pratt anchors the large ensemble cast of the series, which also includes Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Riley Keough, Arlo Mertz, Jai Courtney, JD Pardo, Patrick Schwarzenegger, LaMonica Garrett, Stephen Bishop, Sean Gunn, Tyner Rushing, Jared Shaw, Christina Vidal, Nick Chinlund, Matthew Rauch, Warren Kole, and Alexis Louder. The series is showrun by David DiGilio, along with writer Daniel Shattuck and Carr.
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