My friend and colleague, Vanessa Foster-Crouch, has a garden and landscape design company, Purple Arbour. Vanessa uses her own garden as a test bed to see how plants will fare in the British climate - she lives in Tonbridge, Kent - and is highly skilled in making the best of small modern gardens as well as those of smaller stately homes and hotels. Definitely worth checking out if you feel your garden needs another eye, or has an awkward shape, or if you're just very, very busy.