Just a mile inland from the sea, the garden is buffeted by drying onshore breezes and, in winter, a bitter wind
The Suffolk coast has a particular charm. With its big skies, empty pebble beaches, reeded floodplains, and adjacent patches of heathland where nightingales sing, it is beloved of musicians, writers, artists – and anyone in search of a quieter, gentler life, including Sue Pearson. “We’d had family holidays in Aldeburgh since I was very young,” explains Sue, “so it was a dream come true when we finally moved here in 2019.”
Sue’s home is not the classic pink-washed thatched cottage you might at first envisage for this sleepy part of the world. Rather it’s a 1970s bungalow and, when she moved in, she found that her one third of an acre garden comprised a few quite specific things: a lot of lawn, a clump of conifers, a silver birch and an
