BRIMMING with LIFE

Few people create a garden that overlooks their childhood home, but for Josephine Hoy, it is barely a stone’s throw from her Georgian rectory to the farm where she and her sisters grew up. ‘We freely roamed the countryside,’ she says, ‘hence I’ve always loved life outdoors and been very aware of nature.’ Etched in her memory are her father’s marvellous vegetable garden, and the many flower borders and cutting beds for her mother, a keen flower arranger.

With such childhood influences, it is no surprise to discover flowers feature prominently throughout Jo’s garden, swathing cherry and apple trees with blossom above carpets of cow parsley; clothing walls, obelisks and an arbour alike with clematis, honeysuckle, roses or long trusses of fragrant wisteria; and weaving through