“The garden is very much about the flowers and, from hollyhocks to hydrangeas, they all have merit Gardens don’t tend to appear by magic, but sometimes there’s a certain inevitability about proceedings and when Denise and Chris Wallis found themselves with lots of space and an excellent supply of horse manure to hand, it was a slippery slope in waiting.
“We’d only had a medium-sized garden before, but it was always something that appealed,” says Denise. “We had horses and a bit of land on the edge of the village, so we started off with just an open patch of grass. But it gradually changed from a field to a garden, as first we added a border, then a few trees, then a little while later we added another border…
