Ideal Home

Would you replace your lawn with fake grass?

Yes

“We make much better use of our garden now”

Jess Cook, 45, lives with two of her three sons – Otto, 11, and Freddie, seven – in a three-bedroom Victorian semi in Cheltenham. Eldest son Sam, 23, is away at university. A former garden designer, Jess is now PR manager and trustee of the Royal Windsor Rose and

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