Portrait of a garden

Gardeners spend a lot of time trying to impose order on their patch, so it’s a bold move to advocate for more chaos. English garden writer and historian Tim Richardson, who serves on an advisory panel for the British National Trust, did just that. He wrote a piece for a national newspaper more than a decade ago suggesting that Sissinghurst, the famous gardens in Kent run by the trust, had become too tidy, too uptight.

Writer Vita.