Making a great garden all starts with an idea

You need to give it some thought  if you want more than just a collection of plants, says Peter Dowdall.

EVERY garden starts with an idea. That idea could be as simple as a child planting a seed in a patch of ground outside.

That seed grows into a tree and then over the years plants go in around it and before you know it a garden exists or the idea could be a complete design with three-dimensional images and computer generated images.