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  • The English Garden

    A NEW Romance

    May 19, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS ANNETTE WARREN
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    CLIVE NICHOLS

    Some people might find the challenge of moving from London to a worn-out listed farmhouse in Surrey a daunting prospect. Not so garden designer Tanya, who took up residence with her young family in 2002. Right from the start she was eyeing up the uninspiring squares of lawn with a view to creating her very own country idyll.

    Tanya was cautious to begin with, wanting to wait and see what would emerge in her new garden. “The three acres were mainly laid to lawn with a few trees and an awful lot of park-style bedding,” she recalls, laughing. “But really this was a perfect start as there was nothing I could do to spoil it! It

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