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What Family garden designed to maximise fun and enjoyment. Where Surrey.

Size Around three acres including woodland and walled garden.

Soil Sandy and acidic.

Climate Temperate.

Hardiness zone USDA 9.

The terrace gives several access points into the garden, stepping down to the pond, the ‘prairie path’, and the path leading to the pool below.

I had this fantasy that Sid James and Barbara Windsor might have hung out here. I wanted it to again be a garden that was about fun

Designer Matthew Childs has long been inspired by the Californian landscape architect Thomas Church, and his

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