Sometimes when you look for your heart’s desire, you find it in your own backyard. Linda and Jeff Stone thought about moving from their home in a busy but very desirable Birmingham neighbor-hood, and even looked for a new house to replace the one they already had torn down to the foundation and rebuilt. In the end, they decided to undertake a second redo, and this time, a verdant English garden was born.
“We have lived here for 28 years,” says Linda, a recently retired pediatrician who raised three children in the abode. Fifteen years after they built the first house, the couple’s needs had changed. “We needed a little more closet space, bar space, study space,” she says of the second project. “That’s also when the garden was laid…
