Mark now found himself out of a job and so started pushing a lawnmower and doing garden maintenance. We still had access to the ponds, as his ex partner still owned the farm and wasn’t in a hurry to sell, so Mark still did some work on it in his spare time, breeding a few koi each year. The garden maintenance turned into garden design, as well as koi pond construction, which in short, resulted in Mark becoming one of the country’s top garden designers, winning several RHS Gold awards for garden design and construction including the top award for water garden design, the Tudor Rose, at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 2000. It was during this period that we started our family with our eldest son being born in 1994 and our second son in 1996.
Tudor Rose Award winning garden at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2000.
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Gold Award winning garden at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 1998