Wealden Times | WT163 | September 2015 | Education supplement inside

This page: Putting her love of Gardener’s World to good use Annette
has created a garden using a refined and careful palette of colours. It’s
brimming with seasonal colour, offset by an effective combination of
pebbles, wood and Indian sandstone and packed with an exuberant
planting of agapanthus, allium sphaerocephalon and campanula
Annette has transformed what could
easily have been an unusable slope with
a series of terraces, all meticulously
worked out and edged with sleepers...
kept it to the cupboard.” It makes a magnificent statement.
Back downstairs, we peek into Annette’s workroom, which
is just as carefully thought through as the rest of the house
– and even her files and accounting paraphernalia are colour
co-ordinated. A pile of beautifully finished curtains are laid
out carefully in the middle of the floor ready to be packed
and taken to a client. Next door in the sitting room I’m
drawn to look at the artwork around the room, much of it
made by Annette and her children. There are the dolls’ heads
again, which I find particularly unnerving, but they’ve been
beautifully done. There’s some witty taxidermy too – a mouse
secured into an open purse with a hatpin, a duckling and
various other little birds in quaint setups. They have a macabre
charm, reminiscent of artist and taxidermist Polly Morgan.
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