Risen from THE ASHES

Character and a garden were the two items at the top of Harriet Orr-Ewing’s wishlist when she was looking for a cottage in the north Oxfordshire countryside where she had grown up. Having lived in London for 20 years – “ten years too long, I now realise” – she was more than ready for a change. She had already traded in her office job for garden design, her true vocation, but was beginning to tire of small city garden jobs – not to mention parking