Heavy clay soil needn’t be off-putting. (see before pic!!).

Removing the back fence panels makes this very small estate garden borrow the landscape – literally!

Green and virtually invisible, the foliage from the hedgerow grows into the garden through the chain link wire.

A small depression in the soil becomes a wildlife pond which you pass on your way down to the shade at the bottom of the garden for an effective and valuable retreat.

Acknowledgements

Landscaper: Laurie McMillan

Photographer: Catherine Benson