Inside Out

small but mighty

Small gardens are the way of the future. As blocks of land shrink and houses become bigger, sadly, it’s the garden that suffers – so you need to get the space right and make it feel as large as possible.

The first thing I like to do in a small space is to blur the boundary edges of the garden. When the eye is drawn to a definite boundary, such as the

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