Annie Gatti Anne Gatti is a gardening writer and journalist, and a former editor of both The Garden Design Journal and The Good Gardens Guide. Romancing the stone: How one man has taken the craft of dry-stone walling and turned it into an art Tom Trouton's works at The Newt and elsewhere set him apart as a master of one of our oldest heritage crafts. Copyhold Hollow: The 16th century house with a 1,000-year-old hedge — and a 21st century garden When Frances Druce took over Copyhold Hollow — in the High Weald, West Sussex — this 16th-century house with its ancient box hedge had no garden to speak of. Undeterred, she built one herself, reveals Annie Gatti. Photographs by Mimi Connolly.