I started out with a blank canvas, and listened closely to my customers' and gave them some ideas, which they liked, and had some help from a very good builder named Lee, who liked my illustration of putting up a pergola that you could walk through, with flower beds to one side of the pergola curving round at the bottom of a grassed area above a sleeper wall and a pond in the top far corner. As Lee was going to be building the driveway and a raised area below the patio, he asked if he could also build the pergola, which made perfect sense. I then asked if he would lay the sleepers down for the pond as there was an event happening later on in the year, and time was not in a favour, so after finalising the plan with my customers and the drive and pergola was made and sleeper installed, I got to work on marking out and making the flower beds and making the pond, communicating closely with my customers about the planting and long term use of the garden. As always, nothing is straightforward, and with a few little hiccups along the way from outside interference that my customers did not authorise. Eventually, everything got sorted out, and here is the end result.