“As our bodies have skeletons so should our garden have a bony structure. It is only upon a firm foundation that the irregular growth of plant and tree can best clothe and deck the garden. Frilled edge of flower contrasts with severe edge of design … It was by reason of its severe underlying structure that the really old garden scored its success; for what could be more rigid than the walled garden, with the tight symmetry of espalier fruit trees, ruler straight lines of vegetable patch and unswerving order of box edging?”

Clare Leighton, Four Hedges