Want to make the most of your garden? Remember to look up We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Megan Backhouse Normal text size Advertisement When landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith decided to make his own garden, he chose a spot across the lane from where he was born and grew up. He converted his family’s old barn into a house, acquired a neighbouring wheat field and set about making what he recently described as a “mini simulacrum” of his ideal life. It’s a garden in which he can concentrate on “all that is good about the world”. But, as he discusses in a new book,