A CLEAN SLATE

There was nothing here except for the new house we had built on the footprint of an old milking parlour and some lovely stone outbuildings. The entire site was concrete: there were no hedges, not even a tree.” Louise Killen is setting the scene for the elegant, cleverly planned family garden that wraps so comfortably around the house today. “It felt so new. There was no context in which to bed itself in, just open farmland,” adds garden designer Alison Jenkins.