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The Times, May 2015

Create a child friendly garden

Making your garden fun doesn’t mean is has to look like a play park. A multifunctional approach keeps everyone happy

The trickiest garden-design clients I’ve ever had? My own family. On moving to a new home, to my own wish list of overflowing herbaceous borders and bowling-green-smooth lawns were soon added the desirables “goalposts”, “treehouse” and “labrador”. We finally had the chance to make the family garden we had dreamt of — the challenge was to make it look good without casting household democracy out of the window.

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