Mum has been a keen gardener for many years but I have only just been let into the secret. I have always appreciated a beautiful garden but until the point of having my own, I hadn’t fully appreciated what time and effort goes into maintaining a garden and what happiness consequently comes from it

Jacques Henri Lartigue was a renowned French photographer (and artist) who began taking photographs in 1904, when he was seven, and continued well into the 80s – he died at the age of 92.

Mum has been a keen gardener for many years but I have only just been let into the secret. I have always appreciated a beautiful garden but until the point of having my own, I hadn’t fully appreciated what time and effort goes into maintaining a garden and what happiness consequently comes from it

Jacques Henri Lartigue was a renowned French photographer (and artist) who began taking photographs in 1904, when he was seven, and continued well into the 80s – he died at the age of 92.