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Summer borders in the Millennium Garden designed by Xa Tollemache feature clipped holm oaks, Quercus ilex, clouds of Verbena ...
Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue', AGM, with bumble bee. Sir Harold Hillier Gardens/Hampshire County Council, Romsey, Hants, UK
The Courtyard Garden designed by Piet Oudolf and John Coke features a circular entrance of clipped silver pear, Pyrus salicif...
The Vean Garden is predominantly white, blue and gold, with clipped box and golden privet surrounded by lush perennials such ...
Fergus' vegetable garden is an integral part of the garden's overall design, with view beyond into the gravel garden, through...
View from Wildly-Cheering Pavilion giving views over the herbaceous border and into the kitchen garden backed by undulating w...
Dahlia border beside restored Victorian greenhouses. Clovelly Court, Bideford, Devon, UK
Herbaceous borders lining the croquet lawn feature standard holm oaks, Quercus ilex, underplanted with Hosta 'Sum and Substan...
Walled kitchen garden, once part of the abbey, with 13th century Great Barn of Buckland Abbey rising above. The Cider House, ...
Path framed with borders full of yellows and reds including Helenium 'Butterpat', delicate yellow daisy Madia elegans, dahlia...
Newly planted Persian garden with screened seating area and formal planting including squares of box and Ilex crenata and slo...
Agastache 'Apricot Sunset'.
Steps decorated with pots of white daisies lead up to another part of the garden framed by mounds of Choisya ternata. Through...
Early morning sun illuminates the form of a standard Crataegus x lavallei, scarlet Crocosmia 'Lucifer', golden awns of Stipa ...
Grass paths are mown through the meadow, leading toward the formal garden with yew hedges and topiary near the house. Felley ...
A collection of succulents in small pots including sempervivums, Aeonium 'Zwartkop' and a dark echeveria, on a wirework table...
Central circular bed is a mass of graceful grasses and herbaceous perennials including Miscanthus 'Morning Light', Stipa giga...
Mixed border including Knautia macedonica, feathery Stipa tenuissima, tawny spikes of Digitalis ferruginea, Salvia verticilla...
Repeated mounds of clipped grey-leaved Santolina chamaecyparissus and S. rosmarinifolia cluster on the sloping ground at Clif...
Small decked seating area outside Debbie's home studio, a third of a way down the sloping garden.
Repeated mounds of clipped grey-leaved Santolina chamaecyparissus and S. rosmarinifolia cluster on the sloping ground at Clif...
Iris ensata
Lower garden with lichen encrusted Lutyens bench surrounded by a pretty mix of grasses and herbaceous perennials including ac...
Raised shade bed behind the house planted with hostas, ferns, astelias, cornus and acers. Bosvigo, Truro, Cornwall, UK
Summer borders in the Millennium Garden designed by Xa Tollemache, edged with Lavandula × intermedia 'Grosso'. Castle Hill, B...
Box edged beds at the top of the double summer herbaceous borders designed by Xa Tollemache feature dark leaved Dahlia 'Twyni...
Rhodochiton atrosanguineus. The Bay Garden, Camolin, Co Wexford, Ireland
Crested tansy, Tanacetum vulgare var. crispum, with white veronicastrum in the Barn Garden. The Bay Garden, Camolin, Co Wexfo...
A gravel and stone set path edged with Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' runs through the centre of the potager garden with timber arc...
Formal pond in the upper garden where a gap between beech hedges frames an obelisk set in a grassy meadow. Corscombe House, C...
The Barn Garden, a mix of grasses and herbaceous perennials including pale Stipa tenuissima, Rhus typhina 'Dissecta' and purp...
The Courtyard Garden designed by Piet Oudolf and John Coke features large areas of low grasses that mimic surrounding meadows...
Allium sphaerocephalon in a bed of low grasses. Bury Court Barn, Bentley, Hants, UK
Repeated mounds of clipped grey-leaved Santolina chamaecyparissus and S. rosmarinifolia cluster on the sloping ground at Clif...
Wooden lounger on the south facing terrace with sea beyond, surrounded by euphorbias, clipped Eleagnus ebbingei, Verbena bona...
The Carpet Garden features standing stones and a rill that empties into a circular pond beside which two metal birds stand gu...
Wooden dovecote stands at one end of the herb garden. Dipley Mill, Hartley Wintney, Hants, UK
Vegetable plot features raised beds edged with timber, full of parsnips, carrots, onions and all sorts of beans and peas. Mil...
The Troughery, a collection of stone troughs collected from around the farm, planted with alpines. Behind them are pleached l...
Walled garden designed by the late Graham Hopewell includes an ante-chamber featuring evergreen shrubs such as standard holly...
Clipped copper beech seen in the lower garden across a mass of Stipa tenuissima, Sisyrinchium striatum, vivid salvias and ste...
Topiary castles complete with flags overlook the herbaceous borders. Felley Priory, Underwood, Notts, UK
Heritage varieties of carrot including dark red Rouge sang violette and yellow Jaune Obtuse du Doubs. The 'Garten' Garden, Lo...
Exotic bedding in the Victorian garden includes succulents such as Aloe ferox, tall Aloe thraskii, and dark aeoniums, mixed w...
A raised section of path encrusted with mounds of Saxifraga 'Cloth of Gold' leads up to the deck around Sara's garden office,...
The Courtyard Garden designed by Piet Oudolf and John Coke features a dome of clipped box surrounded by a bed of grasses mixe...
Chunky oak table and benches on a sunny terrace beside the house, with Stipa gigantea, Verbena bonariensis and salvias in adj...
White metal bench in the formal garden to the east of the house framed with clipped box balls, Stachys byzantina 'Silver Carp...
Mounds of Rosa 'Californica Plena' in the meadow with copper beech beyond. Westbrook House, West Bradley, Somerset, UK
Stepping stones across the pond to decking with seating. Old Rectory, Batcombe, Somerset, UK