The grass can always be greener

Garden designer Leonie Cornelius is the creative brains behind some of Ireland’s most extraordinary private gardens. Here, she explains how best to jazz up your outdoor living space

Garden designer Leonie Cornelius sees her work as a form of alchemy Pic: James Connolly

One of my all-time favourite quotes about design comes from a book I read many moons ago. In The Alchemist, author Paulo Coelho observes: “What else is design but a method of alchemy . . . to transform the ordinary . ...