Julie Skelton Full Member

-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
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A swathe of naturalised tulip bulbs beneath trees at Hever Castle
Location: Hever Castle, Kent
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Dawn reveals the last frost of April over a blossoming orchard and copper beech
Location: Hampshire, UK
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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