Steffie Shields MBE Full Member

Cotinus coggyria 'Golden Spirit' Cotinus coggyria 'Golden Spirit'

Living up to its name in mid-November

Location: Lincolnshire

Magnolia wilsonii Magnolia wilsonii

Location: Beckingham, Lincolnshire

Pink Profusion Pink Profusion

The season for roses and pinks!

Location: Lincolnshire

Lest We Forget Lest We Forget

The Lincolnshire Peace Garden, International Bomber Command Centre

Location: Lincoln

Autumn Chorus Autumn Chorus

Single white Colchicum 'Album' and double, violet -pink Colchicum autumnale 'Water Lily' amongst the first fall of leaves

Location: Lincolnshire

Summer Velvet Summer Velvet

Rosa 'Joseph's Coat' petals seems particularly rich in colour this summer,like scarlet velvet

Location: Lincolnshire

Colours of spring take flight Colours of spring take flight

An orange-tip butterfly, the spring butterfly, on cow parsley

Location: Lincolnshire

Magnolia x soulangeana Magnolia x soulangeana

Location: A garden in Lincoln

The arrival of Spring The arrival of Spring

Snakeshead fritillaries nodding in long-awaited sunshine

Location: Lincolnshire

Dessication Dessication

Dipsacus fullonum; striking dried-up teasel seedheads still reaching for the sky

Location: Carlton Scroop, Lincolnshire

Picturesque Picturesque

The Grass Terrace and Long Border at Hotel Endsleigh, a surviving Humphry Repton design

Location: Devon

Garden Bubble Garden Bubble

Location: Lincolnshire

Blowing in the wind Blowing in the wind

Acer rubrum

Location: Lincolnshire

Moving Heaven & Earth-Capability Brown's Gift of Landscape Moving Heaven & Earth-Capability Brown's Gift of Landscape

Inspirational Book of the Year Finalist Garden Media Guild Awards 2016

Dancing partners Dancing partners

Strictly vine tendrils

Location: Lincolnshire

Flag-waving Flag-waving

A rainbow-coloured sumach seems like autumn bunting

Location: Lincolnshire

Beech Down Beech Down

the reveal - young beech leaves backlit

Location: My garden

Have Garden Will Travel Have Garden Will Travel

Location: Regents Canal London

Rosa Wedding Wishes Rosa Wedding Wishes

Location: Grantham

Blue Poppies Blue Poppies

my idea of heaven

Location: Lancashire

The Show The Show

Location: Easton Walled Gardens, Lincolnshire

Evening Bells Evening Bells

Digitalis purpurea

Seeing Red Seeing Red

Location: Guernsey

Stars in Our Eyes Stars in Our Eyes

Allium christophii

Hanging Harvest Hanging Harvest

Vitis Muscat Bianca

The Glow The Glow

Early morning light in a Lincolnshire garden

Tulips and Towels Tulips and Towels
Bulrushes and birches Bulrushes and birches

A limited wintry palette and the texture of skilled landscaping

Winter Coating Winter Coating
Madness Madness

Everything goes mad in May- just at Chelsea Flower Show time - so hold your nerve!

Erysimum'Chelsea Jacket' Erysimum'Chelsea Jacket'
Cornus kousa Cornus kousa
Blanket stitch Blanket stitch