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  • The English Garden

    Building On THE PAST

    Jul 14, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS ANNETTE WARREN
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    CLIVE NICHOLS
    “We can’t prove it, but we would like to think that Gandhi visited to see the glasshouses”

    As an interior designer, Helen Pink is adept at helping clients choose schemes to complement their lifestyle. But when Helen and husband Jon moved to Alderwood House near Penshurst in Kent in 2014, she sought landscape inspiration and advice from award-winning garden designer Bonnie Lamont. “Bonnie and I met when we were both expecting our youngest children in 2007. She had already helped me with some design ideas for my previous garden and I instantly felt that she understood my vision,” Helen recalls.

    When Helen and Jon arrived at the house it was literally a building site,

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