Cottage abundance

hen Janet Bashforth moved to The Homestead, an Edwardian bungalow in rural Cheshire, in 2014, the scene was very different to the one that greets visitors today. ‘There wasn’t much garden to speak of; it was basically a blank canvas, with just two areas of grass, some mature silver birch and one or two shrubs. The previous owner was a dog breeder and used the back part of the garden to exercise her puppies. It was a concrete paved area with two stable blocks that housed the dogs,’ Janet explains. It is now hard to envision this previous outlook, of which only one stable remains,