Dutchman Tom Hooijenga began his career with the Parks Department of his native country, before working for the National Trust and English Heritage. Blair Ferguson chats with him to find out what drew him to work at one of the UK’s premier educational facilities
I was mad about English gardens, especially the traditional English cottage garden. I was reading about Lutyens, Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West - I went to Dutch bookshops and purposely bought books in English about those architects and gardeners