Garden Diaries is our new series where we share inspiring stories of designing and cultivating a stunning garden space. We explore how creatives, designers and tastemakers have grown a deeply personal space, inviting creativity, learning and happiness in their gardens, and how they live in these spaces.
In the first winter after moving to rural Connecticut, Pom Shillingford stood at her kitchen window each morning and stared out at very little. There were no flower beds. No hedges. Just a barren scene of bare earth and old, haunting trees pressing in against a wide, empty sky. 'There was very little in the way of a garden, it was just grass,' she remembers.
