PHOTO: JASON INGRAM
When I began hosting Gardeners’ World at Berryfields in 2003, I was determined to make the garden there as integrated and real as possible. For the first year or so, there was so much to do – borders to make, hard landscaping, the huge pond, greenhouse and vegetable garden – that every programme involved a new project of some sort. But then we made a special programme that involved visits to all the previous Gardeners’ World gardens – The Magnolias, Clack’s Farm, Barnsdale and Barleywood – and I realised that my goal of creating a real garden was completely wrong.