MY GARDEN LIFE
What inspired you to become a garden designer?
I was lucky in the sense that I decided very early on what I wanted to do. I thought about becoming an architect for a long time but decided against it. I grew up in Florence and I met, through family connections, noted landscape architect Pietro Porcinai, a contemporary of Geoffrey Jellicoe. Once I realised that what he did combined botany and architecture, and involved working outside as opposed to
