AT HOME WITH...

Owners John and Jackie Copping, a retired counsellor and textile artist. House Longyard Cottage, dating from the 1740s, in Nazeing, Essex. Features A large garden with broad lawns shaded in summer by willows, birches and beeches, and home to countless naturalised snowdrops in winter. The borders provide colour every season. Soil Clay sub-soil, but having been worked over a few centuries, now a neutral loam. Aspect Front garden faces east.