Gardening with the future of the planet in mind is important to many of us. It’s something horticulturists Louise Allen and Piers Newth have been practising for two decades at Dreamers Cottage, in the Oxfordshire hamlet of Little Haseley. “We were aware that the world was heading for an environmental ‘car crash’,” says Louise. “We wanted to live a more sustainable life, but to do it in a beautiful way.” Evidence of sustainable beauty can be found throughout the third of an acre garden surrounding their thatched cottage. From the paths, gates and fences to the rescued and renovated tools that tend the produce, everything plays a part in their vintage tool business, Garden and Wood.
Louise and Piers met as students at
