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Julie Skelton Full Member
Christmas tree at Chilworth Manor gardens
The gardens at Chilworth Manor, once home to the Chair of the National Garden Scheme - Lady Heald - decorated for charity fundraising selling Christmas trees
Location: Surrey UK
Next year's rosé in midwinter
Frost on rows of vines at sunrise in mid-December
Location: Surrey UK
Frosted rosehips and vines
-8 frost on December rosehips. Roses at the end of rows in vineyards attract any aphids or disease before the vines do, giving the winegrower a better chance of avoiding any spread.
Location: Surrey UK
Newly completed garden by Pollyanna Wilkinson
Family garden design with multi-stemmed Prunus serrula, seating area and outdoor kitchen
Location: Richmond, Surrey
Courtyard garden designed by Pollyanna Wilkinson
Lime greens and softening grasses surround a multifunctional townhouse garden
Location: Richmond, Surrey
Twilight on the family pool garden
Twilight view of a family garden designed by Helen Rose Wilson and constructed by Cobham Court Landscapes; finalist in the APL Awards
Location: Woking, Surrey
Pleached beech, autumn edition
Autumn light catches an avenue of pleached beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) with the red leaves of a mature Cercis siliquastrum just beyond.
Location: Surrey, UK
Kitchen garden in autumn
September sunrise over a kitchen garden packed with dahlias - just seen are the raspberry cage, rudbeckias, ornamental grasses and squashes.
Location: Hampshire, UK
Prairie planting at sunrise
Early morning light maximises the jewel colours of this prairie-style planting. Ornamental grasses are combined with late-flowering perennials for a naturalistic look.
Location: Surrey, UK
Cosmos bipinnatus with backlight
Long-flowering pink Cosmos is the annual gift that keeps on giving.
Location: Hampshire, UK
Abundant autumn
Dawn in a private garden rich with espalier apple trees, vegetable beds, autumn grasses and naturalised habitats. Feature article in 'The English Garden' magazine, Oct 2021
Location: Surrey, UK
Morning light above the lime avenue
The uniform lines of a traditional lime avenue are all the more striking when viewed from above, set into the surrounding landscape.
Location: Hampshire, UK
Calm before the dawn
Rosa 'Awakening' with 'Gertrude Jekyll' and more beyond in a formal country rose garden
Location: Near Alton
Borde Hill rose garden fountain
Borde Hill rose garden with fountain by sculptor Brendon Murless
Location: Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Midsummer border
Planting scheme designed by Coralie Estrade
Location: Essex, UK
Scabious in midsummer
Last of the evening sunlight in a garden designed by Coralie Estrade
Location: Essex, UK
Garden design by Coralie Estrade
Outdoor living in midsummer with table setting in colours to match planting scheme and design elements
Location: Essex, UK
Jay Robin's Rose Garden
Midsummer full bloom at sunset in the rose garden at Borde Hill
Location: Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Out of the Shadows, RHS Chelsea May '22
Kate Gould's design, 'Out of the Shadows', a contemporary haven filled with evergreen and tropical plants, as the evening lights come on
Location: RHS Chelsea Flower Show
RHS Bee Garden designed by Joe Swift
Drifts of seasonal planting for pollinators in the Bee Garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show, May '22
Location: RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Dance of the alliums
Alliums dance in the last of the evening sun in this seasonal border of a private garden
Location: Hampshire, UK
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Hever Castle woodland tulip display
A swathe of naturalised tulip bulbs beneath trees at Hever Castle
Location: Hever Castle, Kent
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First light, late frost
Dawn reveals the last frost of April over a blossoming orchard and copper beech
Location: Hampshire, UK
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Bluebell undulations
Bluebell woods within earshot of the Bluebell Line railway, on the William Robinson Gravetye Estate, East Grinstead
Location: West Sussex
Fritillaria meleagris at dawn
A misty Spring morning amongst the snake's head fritillaries
Location: Hampshire, UK
Little lights
Fritillaria meleagris / snake's head fritillaries in a misty haze at dawn
Location: Hampshire, UK
Arundel Castle historic stew ponds
Award-winning stew ponds restoration with naturalised Spring bulbs
Location: Arundel Castle, West Sussex
Anemone blanda looking to the sun
Clumps of wood anemone planted beneath deciduous trees
Location: Hampshire, UK
In amongst the cherry hedge
A hedge of flowering cherry in evening sunlight
Location: Hampshire, UK
February afternoon sunshine
Afternoon sun lights the snowdrops and aconites in this woodland corner of a private garden
Location: Hampshire, UK
Autumn sunrise on the lily pond
September sun on a pond surrounded by autumn grasses and sedum
Location: Godalming, Surrey, UK
Autumn Echinacea
Pollinator-friendly species on a flower farm
Location: Eden Valley, Cumbria, UK
Emma's dahlias
Fellside Flowers cut-flower garden at sunset in autumn
Location: Eden Valley, Cumbria, UK
Snowdrops and aconites
The first glimpses of Spring at sunset
Location: Hampshire, UK
Rudbeckia in the cut flower garden
A section of Emma Greenshaw's flower farm in Cumbria
Location: Eden Valley, Cumbria, UK
Maturing grapes
Grapes forming and ripening on a vine in Surrey
Location: Guildford, Surrey
Wisley gardens reopen to the public
The Exotic Garden fountain at Wisley gardens as the public are welcomed back in summer 2020
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey
Trials field, Eschscholzia californica
Californian poppies caught in a shaft of sunlight, Wisley gardens
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey
Roses round the door
Entrance way at the Lower House, open under the National Garden Scheme
Location: Godalming, Surrey
The National Garden Scheme welcome back visitors, June 2020
Detail of a wall at Lower House, Thursley, Surrey
Location: Bowlhead Green, Godalming, Surrey
The beauty of peas
Homegrown peas, pea pod and flower details
Location: Guildford, Surrey
Oakwood pots, Wisley
Shade-loving plants in pots in Oakwood, the oldest part of Wisley gardens
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey
The quiet path, Oakwood
A winding path amongst shade-loving hostas and ferns
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey
Chaenomeles japonica Sargentii in April
Chaenomeles / quince in full flower
Location: Guildford, Surrey
Detail of award-winning 'The Watchmaker's Garden'
Alexandra Froggatt's award-winning 'Watchmaker's Garden' combined many elements of native wildflowers and self-seeding plants
Location: Gardeners' World Live, NEC Birmingham
Cercis Siliquastrum - the 'Judas Tree'
Cercis Siliquastrum at its peak season in May - a mature ornamental tree with deep pink pea-flowers
Location: Chilworth Manor, Guildford, Surrey
Frozen chandelier
A hydrangea skeleton is dripping with melting ice after a hard frost in January
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey UK
Welford Park beech woods with snowdrops
The celebrated gardens at Welford Park open under the National Garden Scheme to delight visitors in snowdrop season
Location: Welford Park, nr Newbury
Grape harvest begins
Head gardener John instructs volunteers in harvesting grapes at Chilworth Manor Vineyard
Location: Chilworth Manor, Guildford, Surrey
RHS Wisley rock garden in autumn
The autumnal colour of the renowned rock gardens at RHS Wisley Garden is lit by early morning sun
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey UK
