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Still reflecting pool surrounded by mosses, ferns, irises and willow, with evening sun glinting through the trees and illuminating the distinctive shape of The Tongue beyond, one of the Northern Fells of the Lake District.
Wall trained peach with standard bay in front surrounded by nasturtiums and sea kale, Crambe maritima. Melplash Court, Bridport, Dorset, UK
Cardiocrinum giganteum. Melplash Court, Bridport, Dorset, UK
Herbaceous borders lining the croquet lawn feature standard holm oaks, Quercus ilex, underplanted with Campanula lactiflora 'Prichard's Variety', catmint, Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant', feverfew, Alchemilla mollis and Stemmacantha centaureoides. Melplash Court, Bridport, Dorset, UK
Herbaceous borders in the kitchen garden include oriental poppies, Papaver orientale 'Beauty of Livermere', peonies, tall yellow Asphodeline lutea, yellow day lilies and hardy geraniums. Edmondsham House, Cranborne, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, UK
Small orchard of apples, crab apples and pears growing amongst a riot of wild flowers and annuals including poppies, love-in-the-mist, corncockles, ox-eye daisies and Orlaya grandiflora. Eastington Farm, Worth Matravers, Dorset, UK
Small orchard of apples, crab apples and pears growing amongst a riot of wild flowers and annuals including poppies, love-in-the-mist, corncockles, ox-eye daisies and Orlaya grandiflora. Eastington Farm, Worth Matravers, Dorset, UK
Terrace with bench features clipped bay, self seeded wall daisy, Erigeron karvinskianus, and Centranthus ruber 'Albus'. Private garden, Dorset, UK
Apple tunnel with sundial at end framed by Rosa 'Rambling Rector'. Private garden, Dorset, UK
Walled garden built in 1999 to the design of the late Graham Hopewell featuring a circular pond fed by water feature and stepped rill. Planting includes Geranium palmatum, Rosa rugosa 'Roseraie de l'Hay', Lilium regale, and climbers including clematis and trachelospermum. Mill House, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Paeonia lactiflora 'Karl Rosenfield'. Sir Harold Hillier Gardens/Hampshire County Council, Romsey, Hants, UK
Path edged with lavender, catmint, irises and clipped box leads of gazebo at the end of the rill garden with white valerian and Digitalis lutea in foreground. Private garden, Dorset, UK
Planting around raised rill includes white valerian, Centranthus ruber 'Albus', white winter heathers, shrubby potentilla, deep brown Lysimachia ciliata 'Firecracker', creamy Sisyrinchium striatum, Digitalis lutea and blue flowered Triteleia. Private garden, Dorset, UK
A stepped path runs between the front of the Chesil Gallery and a wall below rising form of the Chesil Bank. Seaside plants include sea campion (Silene vulgaris), samphire, (Crithmum maritimum), yellow horned poppy (Glaucium flavum), and sea kale, (Crambe maritima). Chesil Gallery, Chiswell, Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK
Ranunculus constantinopolitanus 'Plenus', a double form of buttercup. Snape Cottage, Chaffeymoor, Bourton, Dorset, UK
Moon gate marks passage from the kitchen garden to the Wandering Garden, framed by borage and trained fruit trees with Geranium palmatum beyond. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 3ED, UK
Pots of succulent plants including Aeonium arboreum surround a millstone table at the end of the swimming pool garden at Cothay Manor, Somerset
The Bishop's Room contains a knot garden of box and surrounding planting in deep reds and purples including Pittosporum 'Tom Thumb', Allium cristophii, Alstroemeria 'Marina' and Knautia macedonica at Cothay Manor, Somerset
Sundial in the front garden surrounded by clipped box and soft grasses.
The terrace border is planted with drought tolerant, sun loving specimens including alliums, euphorbias, Cerinthe major 'Pupurascens' and variegated comfrey.
A sheltered seating area against the house shrouded with pink and white Clematis montana, and framed with Choisya ternata, hardy geraniums and pots of bulbs and primulas.
Crambe cordifolia creates a cloud of white flowers in the herbaceous border with Scotch thistle, catmint and poppies round about. Askham Hall, near Penrith, Cumbria, UK
A flower garden planted with a mix of catmint, honesty, anthriscus, astrantias, penstemons and other herbaceous perennials with clipped box spheres and wooden obelisks to give year round structure. Four distinct beds are divided with gravel paths.
Bed of tall bearded irises with decorative metal gate leading into terrace garden behind, featuring wirework table and chairs. Beyond a path lined with Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' leads into further parts of the garden. Old Rectory, Kingston, Isle of Wight, Hants, UK
Ammonite sculpture by Darren Yeadon framed by a window in a grey wall on one side of the flower garden, with lush ferns and pink astrantias in the foreground. Tony Ridler's garden, Swansea, Wales, UK
A shady corner by the office with rodgersias, loosely clipped box, yew hedging and wisteria, with gravel courtyard beyond featuring four weeping ash trees, Fraxinus excelsior pendula, trained to form a canopy over seating. Tony Ridler's Garden, Cockett, Swansea, UK
Grassy mown paths lead beneath wooden arbour into the meadow and along a line of espaliered fruit trees toward the formal garden. King John’s Nursery, Etchingham, East Sussex, UK
Common spotted orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii. Upper Tan House, Stansbatch, Herefordshire, UK
Group of succulents in pots including echeverias and aeoniums. Upper Tan House, Stansbatch, Herefordshire, UK
Box edged beds in the walled garden contain a mix of achillea, verbascum and Stipa gigantea, with sundial in the centre. Beaminster Manor, Beaminster, Dorset, UK
Peony border beside the pergola in the walled garden includes 'Duchesse de Nemours', 'Sarah Bernhardt', 'Dancing Butterflies' and 'Kansas'. Beaminster Manor, Beaminster, Dorset, UK
The kitchen garden is dominated by four standard fig trees surrounded by clipped box pyramids interspersed with Buxus microphylla var. japonica 'Morris Midget', purple alliums and herbs such as purple sage. Tony Ridler's Garden, Cockett, Swansea, UK
Formal pond surrounded by helichrysum and lavender with balcony full of potted plants above including red pelargoniums. Eastfield, Yarlington, Somerset, UK
A pair of white metal chairs surrounded by catmint and silvery stachys. Mindrum, nr Cornhill on Tweed, Northumberland, UK
Vegetable garden featuring bamboo cloches and hazel wigwams with self seeded chives and foxgloves, and glasshouse behind. Mindrum, nr Cornhill on Tweed, Northumberland, UK
Gravel garden with Stipa gigantea catching the early morning sun, with Stachys byzantina, foxgloves antirrhinums, evening primrose and Phlomis russeliana. Fowberry Mains Farmhouse, Wooler, Northumberland, UK
The Flower Garden features strong blocks of box and yew that frame cottage garden plants and flowers, and stone containers planted with saxifrages and clothed in clipped ivy. Herterton House, Hartington, Northumberland, UK
Plants are lifted from the ground and wrapped in newspaper ready for sale. Herterton House, Hartington, Northumberland, UK
The Physic Garden features herb beds edged with London Pride, Saxifraga 'Clarence Elliot', and a clipped Pyrus salicifolia, weeping silver pear, at its centre. Herterton House, Hartington, Northumberland, UK
Grass path leads between beds of David Austin roses underplanted with Viola cornuta toward apricot coloured house. Private Garden, Wiltshire, UK
View up grassy path to bench between beds of hardy geraniums, Phuopsis stylosa, catmint and oxeye daisies. Littlebredy Walled Gardens, Littlebredy, Dorset
Opium poppy bud. Littlebredy Walled Gardens, Littlebredy, Dorset
Old fashioned roses hang over the River Bride as it runs along the lower end of the garden, underplanted with hardy geraniums and pink phuopsis. Littlebredy Walled Gardens, Littlebredy, Dorset
Formal box parterre with central water feature surrounded by box spheres, date palms and lavender in pots on wall above. Ednovean Farm, Marazion, Cornwall, UK
Stone dovecot that operates as a spectacular water feature as well. A simple belt and trough system scoops water up from the mill leat into a tank which, when full spouts throught the open mouth of a gargoyle back into the mill pond. Westonbury Mill Water Garden, Pembridge, Herefordshire, UK
Galvanised metal horse stands on a gravel area beside pergola framed with box spheres and covered with roses and clematis, all softened with frothy Alchemilla mollis and Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant'. Caervallack Farm, St Martin, Helston, Cornwall, UK
White and yellow flower spikes of Verbascum chaixii with tall Achillea grandifolia and leptospermum behind and silvery Astelia chathamica in front. Caervallack Farm, St Martin, Helston, Cornwall, UK
Decorative wirework chairs and table on the terrace outside the kitchen, with Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' lining the path leading into the garden. Old Rectory, Kingston, Isle of Wight, Hants, UK
Garden chairs on path below pergola surrounded by pots of Allium 'Purple Sensation'. Ivy Croft, Leominster, Herefordshire, UK
Meadow area with seat and lilac. Ivy Croft, Leominster, Herefordshire, UK
all images copyright Carole Drake