Many garden design projects are born out of a desire for structure where there was previously none: “There was nothing but lawn and a few overgrown shrubs,” is a common refrain. This large garden in Highgate, north London, was slightly different in that, as wild and ramshackle as the garden was, the owners didn’t really want to change it. “The house had previously been owned by a sculptor and the garden was filled with huge drifts
