First love
Flanking the path from the house to the orchard in Jo Hynes’ Devon garden stand two rows of willows, each sliced neatly into a flat plate at head height, from which the new orange growth flares upward, resembling a line of blazing torches lighting the way. What was the inspiration for this treatment? “I used to do a lot of basket weaving,” explains Jo, “and this was a very wet bit of garden, ideal for growing willows. The main planting is of Salix alba var. vitellina ‘Britzensis’, which keeps its fiery colour when you weave it.”
Higher Cherubeer is an eminently practical garden. Standing at an elevation of 150m at the head of a west-facing valley on
