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Garden photographer and writer available for commission. Qualified drone pilot.

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Beggar's Knoll, Westbury

A surprising garden on a chalk hillside above Westbury in Wiltshire, with a Chinese them. Owners Colin Little and Penny Stirling are fascinated by China, its plants, culture and language, and have made several trips to the country. Their garden incorporates Chinese ideas, objects, structures including a pavilion, moon gate, a zig zag path to deter demons, and carefully placed rocks, as well as Chinese plants such as viburnums, podocarps and bamboos. Fascinating, idiosyncratic and full of great details.

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Bamboo screens frame a bench in the Scholar's Garden. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
Decorative wire birds amongst pots of foliage plants including hostas, cheese plant and ficus. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbu...
'Harvesting the Moon Pavilion' in the Red Wall garden at top of steps edged with clipped Lonicera nitida and river washed lim...
Irises and peonies with an edging of Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' and bamboo hoops in the Beautiful Iris garden. Begga...
Kitchen garden features raised beds curved to fit the pathways, with curving wall pierced by moon gate beyond. Beggars Knoll,...
Collection of succulents in pots including aeoniums and echeverias. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
Moon gate seen across dahlias at the end of the vegetable patch. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
Chinese gateway marking entrance to garden of 10,000 Shadows planted with mostly non-Chinese plants, hence the vertical sign ...
Chinese buddha. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
Moon gate marks passage from the kitchen garden to the Wandering Garden, framed by borage and trained fruit trees with Gerani...
View across lawn to Wiltshire countryside beyond. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
View from Wildly-Cheering Pavilion giving views over the herbaceous border and into the kitchen garden backed by undulating w...
Clipped Lonicera nitida behind an edging of river washed limestone. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
View from Wildly-Cheering Pavilion giving views over the herbaceous border and into the kitchen garden backed by undulating w...
Fishpond in the Scholar's garden edged with irises and overhung by a tree peony, Ginkgo biloba in foreground and pavilion bey...
Gate into the kitchen garden is decorated with small carved dragons and framed with an arch of pink roses. Beggars Knoll, New...
Moon gate marks passage from the kitchen garden to the Wandering Garden, framed by trained fruit trees, rudbeckias, agapanthu...
Two small carved lions sit on a bamboo gate into the vegetable garden. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
Statue of a terracotta warrior from Xi'an crouching on a pedestal marked with the word 'China', framed by clipped box hedge b...
'Harvesting the Moon Pavilion' in the Red Wall garden at top of steps edged with clipped Lonicera nitida and river washed lim...
Fishpond in the Scholar's garden edged with irises and pavilion seen beyond. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
Moon gate framed by Geranium palmatum, Lychnis coronaria Oculata group, and Trachelospermum asiaticum, with copper 'talking h...
Zig-zag path designed to deter demons in the Red Wall garden. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
'Harvesting the Moon Pavilion' in the Red Wall garden. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
Three-Friends-of-Winter garden has a winter flowering plum, Prunus mume, at its centre and bamboo Sasa veitchii. Hand carved ...
Zig-zag path designed to deter demons in the Red Wall garden. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK
'Holding hands stone' on plinth surrounded by bamboo, Fatsia japonica and grasses. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshir...
Chinese granite pagoda in the Red Wall garden planted around with palm Trachycarpus wagnerianus and Edgeworthia chrysantha. B...
Chinese granite pagoda in the Red Wall garden planted around with palm Trachycarpus wagnerianus and Edgeworthia chrysantha. '...
Gate into the kitchen garden is decorated with small carved dragons and framed with an arch of pink roses. Beggars Knoll, New...
Moon gate marks passage from the kitchen garden to the Wandering Garden, framed by borage and trained fruit trees with Gerani...
Two small carved lions on a gate into the kitchen garden. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 3ED, UK
Moon gate framed by Geranium palmatum, Lychnis coronaria Oculata group, and Trachelospermum asiaticum, with copper 'talking h...
Statue of a terracotta warrior from Xi'an crouching on a pedestal marked with the word 'China', framed by pink flowered rose....
Stone steps leading down from the pavilion in the Red Wall garden are edged with river washed limestone and clipped Lonicera ...
Zig-zag path designed to deter demons. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 3ED, UK
Hand-carved phoenix beside gateway from Three-Friends-of-Winter garden into Red Wall garden. Beggars Knoll, Newtown, Westbury...
Irises and peonies with an edging of Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' and bamboo hoops in the Beautiful Iris garden. Begga...
View from Wildly-Cheering Pavilion giving views over the herbaceous border and into the kitchen garden backed by undulating w...
Three-Friends-of-Winter garden has a winter flowering plum, Prunus mume, at its centre and bamboo Sasa veitchii. Hand carved ...
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