THIS garden began with a roll of wallpaper, Fern by Cole & Son, to be precise. A rather lovely paper of mostly greens and turquoise, it features a jungly scene of tree ferns and Muehlenbeckia (the string-of-pearls plant). This had been used to paper the boot room, which now looks over a lush, green back garden in Kensington.
Three years ago, when the 1841 Regency-style terraced house was being refurbished, this 510sq ft area was buried under heaps of builders’ material. At first sight, the small, rectangular garden, like so many in London, didn’t appear prepossessing, being