Yew topiary and extensive hedging create the backdrop for different planting schemes trialled and honed

Over the past fifteen years Graham Lloyd-Brunt has been making his own garden in a dry valley at the base of the North Downs in Kent

A long gravel path leads up to a much-used greenhouse running between yew topiary cones and tall hornbeam hedges

Flying hornbeam hedges and dense laurel add further layers and create a cloister around a swimming pool and large open lawn

Flowering meadow grasses have been cultivated on south facing slopes to resolve the annual issue of lawn burning off in the heat of the sun

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