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Article: A drama to watch; Textile designers Leslie Howell and Wendy Booth have the magic touch with drought-proof plants in a seaside plot. Pattie Barron is blown away.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2006
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Byline: PATTIE BARRON
GARDEN designers talk a lot about using "borrowed landscape", which is all very well when there is something desirable to borrow: a church spire, a yew tree.
In town, most of us have to be content with the nextdoorneighbour's lilac, and we do what we can to screen out the unwelcome tower block. But for Leslie Howell and Wendy Booth, the borrowed landscape that surrounds their three-quarters-of-an-acre garden - the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, and a lake in a former gravel pit, with nothing but the beach and sea beyond - is spectacular.
In fact, for the first few years the couple lived in their ex-watch house on Winchelsea ...