In the first of a new series, the designer and ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge enlists a pair of Oxford Sandy and Black pigs to clear his tangle of bramble
I bought a wreck. I should have bought a nice little cottage that needed a lick of paint and maybe a new loo, but instead I bought a derelict 17th-century gentry house with large parts of the roof in the upstairs bedrooms, and half the downstairs floor in the cellar. The garden — which a century ago had been a lovingly tended thing of beauty — had after years of neglect become a head-high tangle of bramble and nettle, its once beautiful outbuildings now little more than piles of stones.
Inspired by the painterly vision of Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson, a plan is forming in my mind. But advised by Trevor Nicholson, head gardener at nearby Harewood House, I’m taking my time to get to know the garden, walking through it, sitting in it, learning how the sun plays at different times of the day, and year.
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