When Juliet Sargeant started her three-year degree in garden design in the early 1990s, she told herself she was just taking a break from medicine (she had then completed four years as a junior hospital doctor), and would definitely return to it. Four years later – she took a year off to have her first child – she found herself in the spare room of her London home, drawing up plans for her mother’s garden, and she knew this career was the one she passionately wanted.
Although she
