Julie Skelton Full Member
Frosty outlined hellebores in a private Surrey garden, February
Location: Surrey, UK
Layer upon layer of colour and texture in early November
Location: The Reservoir Garden, Beth Chatto's Garden, Elmstead Market
A row of pleached beech offering October wind protection to glowing autumn grasses
Location: Surrey, UK
Sunrise light catches lingering leaves, grasses and asters on frosty morning
Location: Surrey, UK
Emilie Bausager and Amelia Bouquet transplanted their award-winning Chelsea container garden to the tube station at Latimer Road, London. Beneath Grenfell Tower and the A40 Westway, amongst a diverse borough in need of cleaner air and green space, this community garden is a bright spot on a rainy day.
Location: Latimer Road, London
Designed by Coralie Estrade, lush planting to soften hard landscaping of a sloping garden, and acommodating established mature tree (drone image)
Location: Highgate, north London
One of a series of ponds framed by lush foliage in Beth Chatto's gardens
Location: The Beth Chatto Gardens, Elmstead Market
Eryngium with an early-morning spider's web
Location: The Beth Chatto Gardens, Elmstead Market
Never irrigated since its planting in 1991, the world-famous gravel garden of Beth Chatto bathes in summer evening sunlight
Location: The Beth Chatto Gardens, Elmstead Market
Last rays of sunlight catch a late summer border through a variety of structural tree forms
Location: The Beth Chatto Gardens, Elmstead Market
Palest poppies in Beth Chatto's gravel garden
Location: Beth Chatto Gardens, Elmstead Market, Essex
Queenie Chan's show garden 'The Lunar Garden' at sunrise
Location: RHS Hampton Court Flower Show
Bumblebee with raindrops pollen-hunting on Inula
Location: East Anglia
The palest of blue Agapanthus in the reservoir garden of Beth Chatto
Location: Beth Chatto Gardens, Elmstead Market, Essex
An entanglement of Epilobium in the gravel garden
Location: Beth Chatto Gardens, Elmstead Market, Essex
The first light of midsummer dawn over Lisa's cut flower field
Location: Homestead Flowers, Surrey
The peaceful woodland garden of Beth Chatto, catching June sunlight through a green canopy
Location: Colchester, UK
A multi-level garden for entertaining and family space, designed by Coralie Estrade
Location: Highgate, London
Pleached trees, patio and water features in this family garden designed by Pollyanna Wilkinson
Location: Surrey, UK
Daucus (wild carrot) flowers catching the first light of the midsummer sunrise on solstice morning
Location: Homestead Flowers, Surrey
An urban garden in midsummer, designed by Pollyanna Wilkinson
Location: Cobham, Surrey
Sarah Price's painterly garden of dancing irises, inspired by Cedric Morris - Chelsea 2023
Location: RHS Chelsea Flower Show
A peaceful evening looking out over the water garden, Beth Chatto's view from her living room window
Location: Elmstead Market, Colchester, Essex
-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
Family garden design with multi-stemmed Prunus serrula, seating area and outdoor kitchen
Location: Richmond, Surrey
Lime greens and softening grasses surround a multifunctional townhouse garden
Location: Richmond, Surrey
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
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
September sunrise over a kitchen garden packed with dahlias - just seen are the raspberry cage, rudbeckias, ornamental grasses and squashes.
Location: Hampshire, UK
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
Long-flowering pink Cosmos is the annual gift that keeps on giving.
Location: Hampshire, UK
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
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
Rosa 'Awakening' with 'Gertrude Jekyll' and more beyond in a formal country rose garden
Location: Near Alton
Borde Hill rose garden with fountain by sculptor Brendon Murless
Location: Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Last of the evening sunlight in a garden designed by Coralie Estrade
Location: Essex, UK
Outdoor living in midsummer with table setting in colours to match planting scheme and design elements
Location: Essex, UK
Midsummer full bloom at sunset in the rose garden at Borde Hill
Location: Haywards Heath, West Sussex
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
Drifts of seasonal planting for pollinators in the Bee Garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show, May '22
Location: RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Alliums dance in the last of the evening sun in this seasonal border of a private garden
Location: Hampshire, UK
A swathe of naturalised tulip bulbs beneath trees at Hever Castle
Location: Hever Castle, Kent
Dawn reveals the last frost of April over a blossoming orchard and copper beech
Location: Hampshire, UK
Bluebell woods within earshot of the Bluebell Line railway, on the William Robinson Gravetye Estate, East Grinstead
Location: West Sussex
A misty Spring morning amongst the snake's head fritillaries
Location: Hampshire, UK
Fritillaria meleagris / snake's head fritillaries in a misty haze at dawn
Location: Hampshire, UK
Award-winning stew ponds restoration with naturalised Spring bulbs
Location: Arundel Castle, West Sussex
Clumps of wood anemone planted beneath deciduous trees
Location: Hampshire, UK
Afternoon sun lights the snowdrops and aconites in this woodland corner of a private garden
Location: Hampshire, UK
September sun on a pond surrounded by autumn grasses and sedum
Location: Godalming, Surrey, UK
Fellside Flowers cut-flower garden at sunset in autumn
Location: Eden Valley, Cumbria, UK
A section of Emma Greenshaw's flower farm in Cumbria
Location: Eden Valley, Cumbria, UK
The Exotic Garden fountain at Wisley gardens as the public are welcomed back in summer 2020
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey
Californian poppies caught in a shaft of sunlight, Wisley gardens
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey
Entrance way at the Lower House, open under the National Garden Scheme
Location: Godalming, Surrey
Detail of a wall at Lower House, Thursley, Surrey
Location: Bowlhead Green, Godalming, Surrey
Shade-loving plants in pots in Oakwood, the oldest part of Wisley gardens
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey
A winding path amongst shade-loving hostas and ferns
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey
Chaenomeles / quince in full flower
Location: Guildford, Surrey
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 at its peak season in May - a mature ornamental tree with deep pink pea-flowers
Location: Chilworth Manor, Guildford, Surrey
A hydrangea skeleton is dripping with melting ice after a hard frost in January
Location: RHS Wisley Garden, Woking, Surrey UK
The celebrated gardens at Welford Park open under the National Garden Scheme to delight visitors in snowdrop season
Location: Welford Park, nr Newbury