Wooded bliss: A woodland garden created on a small site has enveloped the owner's property in tranquillity, dappled shade and soft colours

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There's little romance in a garden that's all stones and spikes. By contrast, a forest canopy brings magic into a garden, however small it may be. Originally from England, with its copses clothed in bluebell, violet and primrose, Heather Loughlin hasalways harboured a fondness for cool shady corners - so when she and husband Murray brought in a landscape designer to do something with the "bare desert" of lawn around their new home seven years ago, what he suggested struck a chord. "Being made to write down a brief for what I wanted from the garden was the biggest learning curve for me," Heather recalls. "I wanted shelter from the harsh Tauranga summers, intimate places to sit and above all peace, privacy and tranquillity."