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    Annie Gatti

    Anne Gatti is a gardening writer and journalist, and a former editor of both The Garden Design Journal and The Good Gardens Guide.
    A tree of Hadspen stone, with leaves of Shaftesbury greenstone, grows amid a wall of forest marble. Credit: Millie Pilkington for Country Life
    Romancing the stone: How one man has taken the craft of dry-stone walling and turned it into an art

    Tom Trouton's works at The Newt and elsewhere set him apart as a master of one of our oldest heritage crafts.

    By Annie Gatti Published 3 June 24

    • Stepping logs wind through the garden, amid plantings of ferns, epimediums, primulas, euphorbias and myosotis. Copyhold Hollow, West Sussex. Photography by Mimi Connolly.
      Copyhold Hollow: The 16th century house with a 1,000-year-old hedge — and a 21st century garden

      When Frances Druce took over Copyhold Hollow — in the High Weald, West Sussex —  this 16th-century house with its ancient box hedge had no garden to speak of. Undeterred, she built one herself, reveals Annie Gatti. Photographs by Mimi Connolly.

      By Annie Gatti Published 26 March 22

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