Pushing close to four score and 10 isn’t deterring this horticultural legend from developing a third significant garden. He’s only slightly impacted by bedding in a new hip and is having the time of his life on his most exciting project yet. Words: Kate Coughlan Photos: Tessa Chrisp Gordon Collier thinks being described as “perverse” is a compliment. It has been his life’s work to avoid the well-trodden path unless it should lead to a glade of naturalistic planting. Then, maybe, he’d take a wander along it. Similarly, he’s never been one for rose-tinted spectacles unless they should be required