Front garden
‘The box plants established really easily’
A revamp of the 2.9m x 4.8-m front. ‘Originally there was a 1970s brick wall and the ground was covered in concrete and a crazy paving path – a weekend ‘smashing up party’ with a few friends soon cleared it!’ The box plants came as tiny bare-root specimens, and Laura laid out the design freehand, having first enriched the soil with compost. In summer, they are watered about once a week, and clipped twice annually. ‘The plants established really easily, but then the dreaded box moth caterpillar struck,’ she says. ‘Now we have to spray with Bug Clear between April and September. I know there are alternative plants, but I prefer box.’
