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  • The English Garden

    All About THE PLANTS

    Mar 24, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS CLARE FOGGETT
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    MARIANNE MAJERUS

    When garden designer Sean Walter was asked by his friend, the interior designer Charlotte Crosland, to remodel the garden behind her Notting Hill house after a new garden studio had been added, he couldn’t have been happier.

    “I’ve worked with Charlotte for years,” Sean explains, “and over time I’d tweaked the previous garden, but it was always frustrating – I never got a good feeling from it. I felt almost resentful doing it, because nothing quite grew. It’s a tall house and the back of it faces east, so a lot of the garden is in its shadow – plus it was bone-dry at the back because

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