<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tatton-garden-plan-jul16.gif"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3664 size-thumbnail" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tatton-garden-plan-jul16-200x150.gif" alt="Tatton-garden-plan-(jul16)" width="200" height="150" /></a>Several of my readers have asked via email for a picture of the garden plan so Caitlin has kindly provided her drawings.

For more details of Caitlin and Tessa's enterprise <a href="https://www.thriftlandscapes.co.uk/show-gardens/rhs-young-designer-of-the-year-2016/" target="_blank">click here...</a>

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tatton-3D-image.gif"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3663" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tatton-3D-image-200x145.gif" alt="Tatton-3D-image" width="200" height="145" /></a>It's important to understand that the theme is Nature and Nurture and therefore Caitlin is designing a garden that is attractive and natural using wherever possible native British plants. It is an extraordinary concept and is quite risky in terms of the Young Garden Designer competition and the traditional Royal Horticultural Society judges but it is what Caitlin believes is right and therefore it has a <a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tatton-hedge-with-wild-flow.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3662" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tatton-hedge-with-wild-flow-200x150.jpg" alt="Tatton-hedge-with-wild-flow" width="200" height="150" /></a>great deal of honesty, belief, heart and courage. For that reason alone she should win a significant award and if not she walks away knowing she has been true to herself without compromise and her head held high.

As you can see the hawthorn hedge will be fronted by a variety of ferns, foxgloves and other plants which I cannot remember the names of.

By the end of today the rill was in place and the ground was levelled ready for some planting through the wild grass strips that will start to be laid tomorrow. Another heavy day ahead of us.

As for my domestic arrangements - I'm staying at a Premier Inn which is only a ten minute drive from Tatton Park. Dinner is available at the pub next door and I buy my breakfast and lunchtime sandwich from the garage across the road. It isn't the high life but it is comfortable and convenient which suits me.