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  • The English Garden

    Going DUTCH

    Apr 07, 2022 3 minutes
    WORDS VIVIENNE HAMBLY
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    MIMI CONNOLLY

    Matthew Spriggs’ walled town garden in Petworth, West Sussex, is made for spring. The compact, space is only 5.5m wide, but Matthew’s clever use of its 40m length makes it more than the sum of its parts. And when spring arrives, it brings a celebratory array of candy-pink cherry blossom and jewel-bright tulips.

    With his sister Samantha, Matthew runs Spriggs Florist, a business that has been in the family since 1980. The shop on Golden Square was part of a townhouse that had been divided up with the shop on the ground

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