It’s often recommended to wait a year or so after moving into a new house to see if any interesting plants pop up in the garden. After Penny Snell and her husband moved into their handsome Victorian house in Cobham, Surrey, over 33 years ago, that’s exactly what they did, hoping that a few choice plants would appear to relieve the unrelenting expanse of green grass surrounding the house.
Nothing new came up, but rather than feeling disappointed Penny was delighted to have a blank canvas. “I didn’t have any ideas about what to do with the garden – it just evolved over the years,” she recalls. At first a small border at the side of the house was created, and gradually more and more plants were established and
