Neil Lucas has always been a workaholic. As a young man in his twenties, he had a full-time landscaping job, working for the local health authority, alongside a second demanding job tending the grounds of his parents’ hotels in Devon. And he somehow still found time to take an interest in ornamental grasses - and to care for a national collection of Ceanothus.
So when, in 1994, the family decided to buy Knoll Gardens in Dorset, Neil was undaunted by the Herculean prospect of turning a rather
