Amateur Gardening

The split-level garden

OING with the flow has proved to be the key to creating a truly beautiful garden for Graham and Judy White. Faced with a split-level and L-shaped plot containing a natural stream, swamp and thicket, and very little else, the couple from Uttoxeter in Staffordshire took their time in making it beautiful and accessible, while imbuing it with their own personality.

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