Translating your feelings into a garden design could look something like this. Happy: a place to entertain family and friends, maybe with separate adults’ and kids’ zones Safe: soft planting and neutral tones Private: screening out the neighbours’ properties, or creating a few small and intimate nooks Chilled out: zones to relax in, perhaps with a

“Garden-making is creative work, just as much as painting or writing a poem,”

‘arms open conservation,’ an approach that would involve and inspire visitors to make a deeper connection to the Trust’s places. In service of this, she had recently pushed more power out of the head office and into the hands of those working on the ground, at the places themselves.