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Regular viewers of The Block will know the name Dave Franklin. The award-winning landscape and pool designer has been a regular guest across the show’s many seasons, as well as doing much of the show’s landscaping. He even landscaped Scott Cam’s house. In the house and garden universe, there can be no finer endorsement.
So this column was worried when we saw Dave’s name in less-salubrious company: on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission liquidation list. Franklin Landscape & Design – “Australia’s leading boutique landscapers and swimming pool builders” (that’s Franklin’s description, not the regulators’) – was wound up in late February, and Robert Ditrich and Craig Crosbie were appointed liquidators.
But readers calm yourselves. Franklin says he’s not out of the game for good. The move is structured to allow his sprawling empire – garden maintenance,…