A private family garden near Godalming in Surrey
IMAGINE standing in a garden for the first time and trying to work out what it can become. Will it be minimal or traditional? Will the planting be cottagey, Mediterranean or jungly? How is the garden going to be used? By children and dogs—how many and how boisterous? Should there be a vegetable garden? Are the clients sociable or reclusive? Do they like gardening? This last one seems pretty obvious, but designers often have to make gardens for people who are neither knowledgeable nor keen. Some are scared witless by the idea of a garden and it is the designer’s job to stroke the fevered brow,
