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The rose garden at Borde Hill with the setting sun highlighting a fountain's cascading water

garden design with patio area and seating viewed through trees

courtyard garden with home office softened by planting

Urban Essex garden at sunset with astrantia

family pool garden with lighting at twilight

small urban garden with patio area and raised lawn

st Timothee Berkshire on frosty winter morning

early morning summer sun at Chilworth Manor gardens Surrey garden photographer

st Timothee garden in January frost

formal terraced borders with stone stairs and hedging

formal greenhouse at the end of gravel pathway with hedging and topiary

sunset on midsummer's day with oxeye daisies Berkshire garden photographer

top garden photographer UK view over Surrey garden at sunrise

romantic stone bridge with turret at Dunsborough Park Surrey

formal rose garden at Arundel Castle Sussex with sundial

Borde Hill Jay Robin's rose garden in midsummer

uk garden photography Chelsea flower show landform balcony garden at sunset

Rudbeckia Sahara in a cut flower garden

snowdrops at Welford park Berkshire in February

golden hour dahlias at Fellside Flowers Cumbria flower farmer

Arundel Castle turret with blossom and clipped yew in Spring

uk garden photographer poppies at sunset, Fellside Flowers, Long Marton

glimpse into a formal greenhouse in Berkshire

cottage garden Surrey garden photography by Julie Skelton

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Over and out for 2025. More great craic like this

Over and out for 2025. More great craic like this for next year, I hope, with beautiful gardens and fabulous collaborations in the pipeline. Happy Hogmanay friends, and thanks for all your support!

Before the year turns and 2025 fades into the dist

Before the year turns and 2025 fades into the distance, I wanted to thank you for your support, friendship and kind words this past year. It means more than you’ll know to connect with people in some small way through the images I make. I see more strongly than ever that gardens calm and regulate us, with the natural cycle of things bringing rhythm and a gentler pace, restoring balance. And the people I meet, in the course of this job that I love, are the most wonderfully uplifting and determined colleagues. Thank you to all who I’ve worked with this year, you make the world a better place 💚
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These pictures from a play date with @wildstonefloral are of one of Leanne’s fabulous creations with the very last of the year’s dahlias. We felt like exploring the style of the Dutch Masters - and that Savoy cabbage was not wasted, it went into a veggie soup shortly afterward!

Shining winter lanterns of Nicandra physalodes vs

Shining winter lanterns of Nicandra physalodes vs its autumn appearance. Seedheads are magic, aren’t they? Not the end, but the beginning of the garden springing to life before too long. Still laughing that when I made a note of the name, my phone wanted to autocorrect to No, Andrea 🤭 Thanks for the ident @scott.brooksgardens 😄
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#nicandra #noandrea #seedheads @bethchattogardens

In winter, the view of the Water Garden at @bethch

In winter, the view of the Water Garden at @bethchattogardens completely opens up. You can see from end to end of the series of ponds; the stream is uncovered, the trees show their individual skeleton forms; a heron sits watching over the reservoir reflections. In my opinion, there is nothing quite as reviving as a wintery walk in this low, delicious light. The stillness of winter is unmatched at any other time of year; meanwhile, the first Galanthus, Narcissus and Hellebores have broken through. Saturday is the garden’s last day of the season before taking a winter break until February (and a couple of wonderfully sunny days squeezing in, if you need the headspace of a walk while basking in rays, as I often stop to do while photographing!).
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#bethchattogardens #gardenvisit #opengarden #eastanglia

I was going to get up early and go to RHS Wisley o

I was going to get up early and go to RHS Wisley on this frosty morning but the frost disappeared too quickly… No, I lie, I was actually under a weighted blanket with a cat on my legs and I didn’t feel like getting up in the cold 🤷🏻‍♀️ Can you relate? Hibernation mode is here, my friends.
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Instead, this is a selection of Wisley photos from one of their early morning photography openings in the autumn. It’s so nice to chat to other people there with their cameras waiting to see what they can find. I headed to the @pietoudolf hill - I adore the swathes of grasses punctuated with colour, and when the light comes through, it’s just dreamy. And then headed over to my pal @ann_mariepowell’s World Food and Wildlife gardens for a leisurely wander. This doesn’t actually feel that long ago, but as we all know, December is a whirlwind and then January will have 392 days…
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@rhswisley #photographymorning #gardenvisit #gardenphotography #autumnplants #ornamentalgrasses

An oldie from @chilworthmanorvineyard, looking thr

An oldie from @chilworthmanorvineyard, looking through the lens of @davidharbersculptures ‘Portal’. The autumn colour of a pleached row of Fagus sylvatica hangs on, while the leaves of the vineyard fade for another year and the trees of the Surrey Hills catch the afternoon sun. Also, this is your heads-up that the Vineyard has some terrific Christmas experiences coming up, including Christmas trees, sing along, the release of their new Classic Cuvée ‘The Bishop’ 2019, and of course their famous festive Glögg!
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#englishwine #festive #christmasideas #christmasfun #surreyhills @surreyvineyards

The best of autumn colour and texture, coupled wit

The best of autumn colour and texture, coupled with thoughtful underplanting. A clever compact design for a year-round family garden by talented @zoe_claymore.
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#autumnplants #autumncolours #gardendesign

Sun salutation. Inhaling, basking, taking in the i

Sun salutation.
Inhaling, basking, taking in the insane colours of the autumn trees as dawn sun reaches the parkland.
Viewed from the Italian Garden, @bordehillgarden 🧡
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#autumn #formalgarden #trees #sunrise

This climate-resilient, pollinator & wildlife frie

This climate-resilient, pollinator & wildlife friendly, non-irrigated planting project will feature on Gardeners World this Friday. The place hums with bees; housemartins have moved in to nest where such rich food sources are found. It’s resistant to weeds and looks good all year round, changing with the shifting seasons. Could these ideas implemented by @bethchattogardens, a collaboration with @lanswoodltd, see a seismic shift in the way new-build gardens are planned? Looking forward to seeing @aritanderson explore the continuing legacy of Beth Chatto with the team on the telly!

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