Escape to the country

THE list of plants reads like that from an established country garden: phlox, hollyhocks, delphiniums, lupins, poppies, asters and dahlias, with broad beans in the vegetable beds, pots of strawberries and apples to pick. This is only a snapshot of the brimming beds and borders that fill this private garden in Hampstead, north London, which was planted in the autumn of 2019 and, only two years later, is humming with honeybees.

When Rebecca Glassberg moved here in 2017 with her husband and their young family, the garden had been mostly laid to terrace for entertaining outdoors, but she had a very different vision