Farhi, 65, grew up in an apartment in Nice, in the south of France, before moving to Paris to study fashion. It wasnt until she moved to her current home 33 years ago that she acquired her first garden. Four years later she founded her eponymous fashion label, which celebrates its 30th anniversary next year. Her designs for next spring have a floral theme, which she researched by taking lots of photographs at her favourite nursery, Tendercare, in Denham, Buckinghamshire. Her own garden has practically no flowers 'I prefer the different tones in green shrubs although there are muted colours throughout: a pink 'Kent' rose in the border nearest to the house, a large white Hebe albicans and white H. subalpina on the right in front of the conservatory, and a white camellia, which was a wedding present to her and David Hare in 1992 from the director Sir Richard Eyre and his wife, tucked away by the steps leading down to the lawn. Camellias also line the driveway at the front of...