Something out of NOTHING
For garden designers every project brings with it different challenges, but one of the trickiest has to be creating a garden for a house that doesn’t yet exist. That was the conundrum that faced Alistair Baldwin when he was commissioned by his clients James and Jo Lambert in 2013. “We were in the process of knocking down our old house to build a new one,” explains James, “and our architect, Michael Tempest, said to us that when you have a house built, it’s a bit like baking a cake: you need a cake stand for it to sit on to show it off. That really struck a chord with me.”
The eight-acre plot surrounding Tunstall Grange, on the
