Marylyn Abbott is one of Australia's best-known gardeners and Kennerton Green, which she and her mother bought in 1988, is the country's most visited garden. For the last ten years she has also been re-creating the long-neglected gardens of an 18th-century English property, West Green House in Hampshire. These gardens are open to the public and have been awarded The Garden Guide'stwo-star rating. Now, for the first time, she shares her ideas on garden design, whether you are starting from scratch, tinkering with what you already have or, as she did at West Green, dragging something back from the brink of annihilation. Having worked with the demands of the bright Australian sunshine and the more subtle English light, and chosen plantings and colour schemes to complement two vastly different houses, she has picked up a store of tips and practical experience that make her uniquely qualified to discuss gardening in two hemispheres.