
Someone joked, ‘your garden has a house’,” says Lucy Willcox. In fact, her 1960s bungalow on the edge of Wimbledon Common is so enveloped in greenery — from the surrounding heathland to the high beech hedges which wrap around it — you’d be forgiven for thinking there wasn’t a house there at all.
But cross the threshold of this newly renovated home and what quickly becomes clear is the award-winning garden designer also has a talent for interiors.