The result is a garden that feels expansive even at close scale, rooted not in control, but in continuity with place. Streamside planting, meadow areas and acid-loving collections create a rhythm that changes with rainfall and season. It is a garden where you sense weather as a shaping force, and where the boundary between cultivated and natural remains deliberately thin. RHS Garden Harlow Carr (Image: Harlow Carr)Quietly inevitableIn the Pennines, the idea of the garden shifts away from control and toward conversation. An award-winning garden designer, he has appeared on BBC Gardeners’ World and is Writer in Residence at Helmsley Walled Garden and York Gate Garden.