I recently had an email from Linda ("Hi, Linda!") who was interested in my Garden Consultancy service, and was wanting help with a water management problem in her garden - next door's gutter was broken and when it rained, all the water flooded through into her garden, leaving it boggy and killing the plants.
Linda was asking for design advice, particularly with regard to what she could possibly plant, as the lawn had drowned, the Hellebores which replaced the lawn had drowned, and the gravel garden which replaced the Hellebores was just sodden...
So what I gave her was some fairly firm "neighbour interaction advice" because there was no point trying to design around a problem which was a) intermittent, b) utterly destructive, and c) solvable!
She spoke to the neighbour, invited them to see exactly what a mess their broken gutter was making: the gutter was fixed, the problem went away.
Hooray!
Afterwards, she asked a further question: with regard to garden design, "Do you ever have the situation where people haven't got a clue what they want?"
The simple answer is, you will not be surprised to hear....
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