For over 40 years Ian has developed his own garden at Peartree House, near Louth, Lincolnshire, as an experimental space, where his design ideas, plants and planting combinations are trialled. 

The sometimes inhospitable, flat, Lincolnshire Marsh coastal landscape provides a huge challenge in terms of planting and design, (see Instagram account ianaubreystubbs). As Ian says, ‘if a design and plants can succeed here, they can do so anywhere!’