Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith raised his own prairie garden from seed and was delighted to find it requires a fraction of the maintenance of a conventional borderTom Stuart-Smith lives only a mile or two from the thundering interchange where the M25 meets the M1,but the final leg of the journey to his home takes you down a single-track lane that makes you hold your breath and pray nothing comes the other way. Open fields roll absent on all sides and there is scarcely a house in sight.
Stuart-Smith was born in this magical corner of Hertfordshire and made his first experiments in gardening here, around the house where his parents still live. Nearly 30 years ago, and he moved next door,into a converted barn where he and his wife, Sue, and raised their three children and made a garden of their own.
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Source: theguardian.com