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Ian Thwaites Full Member
Mushrooms in a weed free lawn at dawn
Autumnal mushrooms
Location: UK
A cotswold garden
A modern look in the cotswolds
Location: UK
The wings of Angels.
Fritillaria meleagris var. unicolor subvar. alba
Location: UK
Counting time in lockdown
Counting time
Location: UK
A minature forest
A clump of moss in the garden
Location: UK
Echeveria Lincoln Frost
A beautiful flower on a sunny frosty morning
Location: UK
Fire in he forest
Acer palmatum 'Elegans' with Acer palmatum 'Beni Kagami'
Location: UK
Conophytum sp
A winter growing succulent thats splits out from its old skin and rewards with a flower far larger than its body.
Location: UK
What a view from the garden tea rooms
A provate garden tea room for visitors
Location: UK
Beside the moat
Late afternoon in the garden
Location: UK
Davenham Court
A very late autumn when protected by the hills
Location: Private garden
The autumn garden
Aster and Rudbeckia
Location: UK
Seadheads in autumn
Clematus seed head
Location: UK
On a hot summers evening as the sun is setting
Ammi visnaga
Location: Wildgoose nursery
En garde
Mammillaria species
Location: Greenhouse
Early colour
Rebutia Bo Jangles hybrid
Location: Private collection
A winter garden
Spring's influence is starting to appear.
Location: UK
The Winter Hedge
Early morning light catches the topiary hedge in winter
Location: Worcestershire
Red and Yellow
Autumn colours
Location: Batsford Arboretum
Hanging On
As the leaves fall all around a few flowers manage to display all their glory.
Location: Private garden
Asters provide a tiered colour pallete along the gravel path
Later Summer Colour
Location: Worcestershire
Last months colour
Poppy seedheads
Location: Worcestershire
After the rain
Rosa Fair Eva - weeping standard
Location: Garden
Dancing in the sunlight
Matteuccia struthiopteris
Location: A sunny spring garden
Prunus shirotae
A pure white flowering cherry
Location: Private Garden
Iris reticulata 'Rhapsody'
A colourful spring
Location: Worcestershire
Matalea cyclophylla (Syn.: Gonolobus cyclophyllus)
A caudiciform succulemt that produces long climbing shoot
Location: Cultivation.
Helenium
Helenium on a wet stormy afternoon
Location: Middleton Hall, Staffordshire
Papaver dubium subsp. lecoqii var. albiflorum
One of the most beautiful plants at Chelsea in 2014
Location: M&G Garden, Chelsea Flower Show 2014
The Walled Garden
Under the Wisteria arch to the fountain
Location: Staffordshire
Little Malvern Church just after dawn
Little Malvern Court - the church attached to the old priory ruins in the early morning sun.
Location: Malvern
Little Malvern Court
Under the wonderful Prunus shirotae with their white flowers looking towards an amazing hedge.
Location: Malvern
Narcissus
My favorite flower is without doubt the daffodil and I just love the way that each one seems to be a little ray of sunshine.
Location: Worcestershire
Iris reticulata 'Rhapsody'
A lovely blue Iris that is a vibrant splash of colour in the spring garden
Location: Worcestershire
Echevaria lauii
In full flower in January in the greenhouse. Many growers cut the flowers off as the flower stem can mark the highly farinose leaves.
Location: Worcestershire
Pieris japonica 'Compacta'
Our first frost of the year. I watched as a warm front approached and the ice melted within minutes of the front crossing the sky above us.
Location: Worcestershire
Pygmaeocereus bylesianus.
A beautiful night flowering cactus. As with most night flowering plants its highly scented to attract moths and bats to polinate.
Location: Worcestershire
Setiechinopsis mirabilis
The nocturnal flower of the small cactus Setiechinopsis mirabilis which will live all its life happily in a 3 inch pot. The flowers only last a night and will wilt as the sun rises the following day. Being moth pollinated they have the usual sweet scent as the flowers open.
Location: My greenhouse
At the end of the season
We all love the autumn colours but some how I still find it sad as its the end to another season.
Ipomoea tricol heavenly blue
I just love the way that the sun seems to be coming from the centre of the flowers. Almost as if each flower is a torch
The formal garden
When I photographed this garden I hoped I could capture it sympathetically.
Location: Worcestershire
Geranium
I love simple flowers. I could photograph Geraniums all day and get a different shot each time
Location: My Garden
The Daily Telegraph Garden
My first ever purchased image that kept a smile on my face for a good few days
Location: RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Echeveria compton carousel
Probably the most beautiful echeveria which I believe is suited to a square crop.
Location: My greenhouse
