“I don’t understand this obsession with lawns!” maintains garden designer Claire Mee, who describes her clients at this Richmond garden as ‘the dream’ because they were willing to forego a traditional lawn in their brief for their new plot. “A lot of clients insist on them, but it can be so boring when you come out of the house and all you see is lawn.” For their part, the owners were keen to enliven the plain patch of grass they’d inherited at the back of their new house. “We’ve got a lot of parks around here, so even though our girls are sporty, we didn’t feel
