It took about five years and two road trips through England before Anne Campodonico was ready to start her garden. True, the Kentfield, California, mother of three wasn't in a rush because she had her hands full chasing small children and renovating a1930 chalet-style home that needed lots of work. But, as Anne tells it, she would satisfy her green thumb by reading a plethora of gardening books, watching the sun to study the yard's exposure, and thoughtfully deciding what elements she'd eventually want in the landscape—and where she would put them. When thetime finally came to stick her shovel into the ground, she was more than ready to create a unique garden style, one that had all the elegance of the English estates she saw in all those gardening books and magazines, but with the warmth of a family-friendly sanctuary. I sat down with her to find out how she wa able to reconcile such divergent styles.
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