Being a designer, I love garden surfaces and have been known to go to far-off places and spend way too long looking downwards admiring what I’m walking on. Now I’m making some surface decisions in my new garden. There’s plenty of existing crazy paving, which isn’t as unfashionable as it may sound because it’s about the way you use it. It was laid many years ago, it’s uneven in places and doesn’t drain too well — the drainage was certainly tested to its limits during the wettest of Februarys. However, the stone is local and beautiful, and it’s far more sustainable to recycle anything on site.
Modern gravel
MARIANNE MAJERUS/DESIGN BY EMMA GRIFFIN
Lifting and relaying it gives me the option to change the shapes on the ground, add a seating area
