Walking into this Highgate garden for the first time, Peter Reader MSGD could feel its potential instantly. "It was gorgeous, but sad and tired," he says. "There was a sunken trampoline and a dried-up pool. Overgrown shrubs made the whole place feel smaller and hid the fantastic wall around the outside that added to the magic of it."With their children heading off to university, the clients now wanted a garden for themselves. "They wanted fruit trees and to reinstate water to bring nature into the garden. They liked modern perennial planting but, other than that, were very open to me designing what I thought would work well." It was a dream brief. "What I enjoy is creating spaces and atmosphere, the places that people will be drawn to within gardens."
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