This family garden wraps around a lovely red-brick Victorian farmhouse that has been extended into the old farm buildings enclosing a courtyard and for the last seven years, the owners have concentrated on renovating the house while raising a young family, and have now turned their attention to improving the garden. Part of the surrounding field to the north and east has been incorporated into the garden, the remainder is used as paddocks for the horses.

Although the couple had ideas of what they liked and what they wanted from their garden, they didn’t know how to go about creating the look and feel and practicalities of what they wanted, and didn’t have the time to devote to researching and designing it so they appointed me to help them to develop a design and a phased plan for implementation.