Country Homes & Interiors

A holiday AT HOME

The garden was the last thing that we started work on,’ says Hannah. ‘We’d been living in the house, which we’d been renting, since 2015 and bought it in 2017. It didn’t occur to us to think about the garden at the beginning as the focus was on getting the house sorted.

When it came to summer and we’d finished the house, it dawned on me that everyone else had beautiful gardens, but we didn’t. We did have some established plants, but as it had been rented out before we moved

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