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Tresco Abbey Garden

Client: Country Life
Location: Isles of Scilly

Built in the 19th century around the ruins of a Benedictine Abbey, 30 miles off the Cornish Coast, Tresco is a glorious subtropical paradise, home to thousands of exotic plants from around the world.

Alliums

Alliums, commonly known as ornamental onions, are grown primarily for their showy blue, purple, white and yellow flowers. One of the mainstays of the spring garden, alliums also look attractive in the garden when the plants die back and are ideal as cut flowers for indoor display and decoration.

Al Hossoun

Client: Thames & Hudson
Location: Morocco

Al Hossoun is a stunning complex of six cloister-like courtyards, houses and gardens in the southern Moroccan town of Taroudant. Designed by French landscape designers Arnaud Maurières and Eric Ossart, the 6300 metre property was recently purchased by a consortium of garden lovers from Avignon to make a guest lodge.

David Austin Roses

Location: David Austin Roses, Wolverhampton

David Austin has been breeding roses for 60 years. Today his roses are renowned across the world for their beautiful blooms and fabulous fragrance.

Cosmos

Location: RHS Garden at Wisley

The colourful flowers of Cosmos were first introduced from Mexico around 1800. Easy to grow and ideal as cut flowers for the house, they are invaluable stalwarts of the late summer border. Here is a selection photographed at the Trials Ground at the RHS Garden at Wisley, in Surrey.

Argentario

Client: Thames & Hudson
Location: Tuscany

On Tuscany’s west coast, at Argentario, Italy’s most celebrated landscape architect Paolo Pejrone has created one of the finest contemporary landscape gardens in Europe. Trained by Russell Page and Roberto Burle Marx , Pejrone worked closely with the owner and with architects from Studio Lazzarini Pickering in Rome. Begun in 1996, the garden now covers 35 hectares of macchia.

Birkhall

Client: Country Life
Location: Scotland

The garden of Birkhall, near Ballater, is the Prince of Wales’s Scottish home on the Balmoral Estate, where the Queen Mother used to live. Situated 600 foot above sea level and occupying a south-facing slope it is enclosed by woodland and the fast flowing River Muick, a tributary of the Dee.

Tulips

Tulips are my favourite flowers to photograph. The mainstay of the spring garden, their elegant forms and velvet petals make perfect subjects for a flower photographer.

Magnolias

Magnolias are trees or shrubs with gorgeous goblet or star shaped flowers that emerge from bare branches in spring, Their mostly pink and white blossoms are often best photographed from below against a deep blue sky.

Rockcliffe House

Client: Little, Brown Book Group
Location: Gloucestershire

Rockcliffe is one of the best gardens in the Cotswolds. It is the creation of owner Emma Keswick, who trained in horticulture at Merrist Wood College in Surrey and also studied garden design with Rosemary Alexander at the English Gardening School in London.

Kassiopia

Client: Skinner and Skinner Design
Planting: Jennifer Gay and Piers Goldson
Location: Corfu

Situated in the northwest of Greece, Corfu is one of the most clement places in Greece to make a garden, with high rainfall, fertile soils and low wind levels. The four acre Kassiopia Estate sits on a rocky headland in the mountainous northeast coast of Corfu, enjoying breathtaking views over the Corfu Straits to the Albanian mountains to the east. Work started 10 years ago on the construction of a summer retreat at Kassiopia by architect Dominic Skinner, who trained and worked with Norman Foster and Partners in London. Planting is by the very talented Jennie Gay and Piers Goldson of Mediterranean Landscapes

Menorca Town House

Client: Real Homes
Location: Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Styling: Annette Warren

The picturesque port of Ciutadella sits on the north western corner of the island of Menorca, a maze of cobbled streets, medieval churches and whitewashed houses. On the corner of one of these streets, just off the main square, Plaza de’s Born, is the stylish house of Evelyne Mandel, an elegant Parisian who spends most of her time on the island. In just two years Evelyne has transformed this former fishermans house into a beautiful living space, using her favourite colours – yellows and blue.

Holker Hall

Client: The English Garden
Location: Cumbria
www.holker.co.uk

Holker Hall is the home of the Cavendish family and is one of the best gardens in the north of England, particularly stunning in autumn.

Le Carmejane

Client: Thames & Hudson
Location: Provence, France

The Luberon region of Provence is famous for its hilltop villages, vineyards and gardens. One of the most picturesque villages in the region is Menerbes, at the heart of which stands La Carmejane, an 11th century bastide with terraced gardens that seem to spring straight from the rocks. Perched high up on the cliff top, the garden enjoys spectacular views north across vine covered fields to the far away Mont Ventoux

Forced Rhubarb

Client: Saga Magazine
Location: Yorkshire
Stylist: Jacky Hobbs

In 2010 the EU officially recognised the early pink stems of forced rhubarb produced in the tiny 9 square mile area between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield with Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status. Known as the Rhubarb Triangle, this area was once home to 200 commercial producers, with rhubarb trains running from Yorkshire to Spitalfields markets in London. Today E Oldroyd & Sons Ltd are one of just 11 producers. The rhubarb is grown in wam, dark sheds after the right amount of frosting outside and hand picked by candlelight from January to April.

Sedgwick Park

Client: The English Garden
Location: West Sussex

The garden at Sedgwick Park House in West Sussex was originally laid out in the late 19th century by the famous architect and garden designer Harold Peto. The strong ‘bones’ of the garden are best seen in the depth of winter, covered in a thick layer of hoar frost. The current owners, John and Clare Davidson have lived at Sedgwick since 2001.

Paolo Moschino

Client: The London Evening Standard
Location: Victoria, London

This is the London apartment of interior designers Paolo Moschino and Philip Vergeylen, the creative team behind Nicholas Haslam.

Reflections

Spending many hours waiting for the perfect light gives time for reflection – and reflections. Many of these photos were taken in gardens just after sunrise or before sunset when the wind had dropped and the still water of lakes, ponds and swimming pools became giant mirrors reflecting the sky and surrounding garden landscape.