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Still reflecting pool surrounded by mosses, ferns, irises and willow, with evening sun glinting through the trees and illumin...
Wall trained peach with standard bay in front surrounded by nasturtiums and sea kale, Crambe maritima. Melplash Court, Bridpo...
Cardiocrinum giganteum. Melplash Court, Bridport, Dorset, UK
Herbaceous borders lining the croquet lawn feature standard holm oaks, Quercus ilex, underplanted with Campanula lactiflora '...
Herbaceous borders in the kitchen garden include oriental poppies, Papaver orientale 'Beauty of Livermere', peonies, tall yel...
Small orchard of apples, crab apples and pears growing amongst a riot of wild flowers and annuals including poppies, love-in-...
Small orchard of apples, crab apples and pears growing amongst a riot of wild flowers and annuals including poppies, love-in-...
Terrace with bench features clipped bay, self seeded wall daisy, Erigeron karvinskianus, and Centranthus ruber 'Albus'.  Priv...
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 step...
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 a...
Planting around raised rill includes white valerian, Centranthus ruber 'Albus', white winter heathers, shrubby potentilla, de...
A stepped path runs between the front of the Chesil Gallery and a wall below rising form of the Chesil Bank. Seaside plants i...
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 Gerani...
Pots of succulent plants including Aeonium arboreum surround a millstone table at the end of the swimming pool garden at Coth...
The Bishop's Room contains a knot garden of box and surrounding planting in deep reds and purples including Pittosporum 'Tom ...
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 'Pupu...
A sheltered seating area against the house shrouded with pink and white Clematis montana, and framed with Choisya ternata, ha...
Crambe cordifolia creates a cloud of white flowers in the herbaceous border with Scotch thistle, catmint and poppies round ab...
A flower garden planted with a mix of catmint, honesty, anthriscus, astrantias, penstemons and other herbaceous perennials wi...
Bed of tall bearded irises with decorative metal gate leading into terrace garden behind, featuring wirework table and chairs...
Ammonite sculpture by Darren Yeadon framed by a window in a grey wall on one side of the flower garden, with lush ferns and p...
A shady corner by the office with rodgersias, loosely clipped box, yew hedging and wisteria, with gravel courtyard beyond fea...
Grassy mown paths lead beneath wooden arbour into the meadow and along a line of espaliered fruit trees toward the formal gar...
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. Beam...
Peony border beside the pergola in the walled garden includes 'Duchesse de Nemours', 'Sarah Bernhardt', 'Dancing Butterflies'...
The kitchen garden is dominated by four standard fig trees surrounded by clipped box pyramids interspersed with Buxus microph...
Formal pond surrounded by helichrysum and lavender with balcony full of potted plants above including red pelargoniums. Eastf...
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. Min...
Gravel garden with Stipa gigantea catching the early morning sun, with Stachys byzantina, foxgloves antirrhinums, evening pri...
The Flower Garden features strong blocks of box and yew that frame cottage garden plants and flowers, and stone containers pl...
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, w...
Grass path leads between beds of David Austin roses underplanted with Viola cornuta toward apricot coloured house. Private Ga...
View up grassy path to bench between beds of hardy geraniums, Phuopsis stylosa, catmint and oxeye daisies. Littlebredy Walled...
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...
Formal box parterre with central water feature surrounded by box spheres, date palms and lavender in pots on wall above. Edno...
Stone dovecot that operates as a spectacular water feature as well. A simple belt and trough system scoops water up from the ...
Galvanised metal horse stands on a gravel area beside pergola framed with box spheres and covered with roses and clematis, al...
White and yellow flower spikes of Verbascum chaixii with tall Achillea grandifolia and leptospermum behind and silvery Asteli...
Decorative wirework chairs and table on the terrace outside the kitchen, with Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' lining the path leadin...
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
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