In the Press… Daily Telegraph

I was delighted to be quoted in The Daily Telegraph discussing the difficulties finding good household staff since Covid.

When the legals are going through on a purchase, I always ask the seller for a list of local recommendations for everything, from builders and decorators to tree surgeons and handymen. If there’s a gardener in place who has looked after the garden for many years or even decades, then clients are always very keen to keep them on because the knowledge they’ve built up over that time is irreplaceable.

One client buying near Petworth paid a significant premium to persuade the gardener to stay – not only because he was excellent and knew the garden inside out, but he’d also worked on the Capability Brown gardens at nearby Petworth Park, which brought a certain cachet!

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