Steffie Shields MBE Full Member
![Anyone for Tennis?](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Anyone_for_Tennis_IOM_87991.jpg)
A country garden tennis court surrounded by a magnificent rose collection
Location: Rhyall, Rutland
![Golden Interlude](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/GOLDEN_INTERLUDE_IOMbestt8543.jpg)
Early evening sunshine paints the leaves of the trees and just touches the shrub rose 'Maigold' on the garden boundary
Location: Lincolnshire
![Last Rays](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Exochorda_8316_final_IOM.jpg)
Last few rays of sunshine light up a fabulous exhocorda macrantha 'The Bride' in full blossom
Location: Lincolnshire
![Winter Solace](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Winter-Solace_FINAL_IOM_8027.jpg)
Striking waves of Iris reticulata in the birch grove at Brightwater Gardens
Location: Saxby, Lincolnshire
![Aflame!](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Aflame_upload7920.jpg)
Leaves of Liquidambar styraciflua 'Worplesdon', a sweet gum, turn into dramatic colours of gold, orange and maroon against a brilliant blue sky
Location: Lincolnshire
![Spindle Surprise](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Spindle_Surprise_IOM_upload6352-3.jpg)
The Spindle tree, Euonymus europaeus, has surprisingly vibrant orange and crimson leaves come October
Location: Lincolnshire
![Budding Performance](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Budding_Performance_IOM7267.jpg)
A cluster of honey garlic buds, Nectaroscordum siculum, begins to open for the spring show
Location: Lincolnshire
![Hellebore Walk](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Hellebore_Walk_IOM6929-upload.jpg)
A garden walk with afternoon sunlight highlighting a carpet of snowdrops and oriental hellebores
Location: Lincolnshire
![Triptych](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Triptych_IOM_FINAL5744.jpg)
A view to the walled garden through the window of Fydell House
Location: Boston, Lincolnshire
![Rosa 'Elizabeth'](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Rosa_Elizabeth_crop_IOMweb5841.jpg)
The new David Austin Rosa 'Elizabeth', a soft, delicate pink with hints of warm apricot in the centre, named to honour HM The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Location: Lincolnshire
![Lilies of the Woods](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Lilies_of-the-Woods_IOMfinal5215-2.jpg)
A burst of pastel colours under the trees
Location: Dunholme Lodge, Lincolnshire
![Out like a lion?](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Out_Like_A_Lion_IOM4747.jpg)
A surprise snowfall in a Lincolnshire garden on the last day of March
Location: Lincolnshire
![Narcissus 'Van Sion'](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Narcissus_Van_Sion_IOM_4638.jpg)
This enduring old cultivar set off by spring day-lily foliage
Location: Lincolnshire
!['Pink Clearwater'](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Pink_Clearwater_3423_FINAL_IOM1.jpg)
A sophisticated,modern Triumph tulip, pink with a hint of salmon, has form-even in the rain!
Location: Lincolnshire
![Hyacinth Walk](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Hyacinth_Walk_IOM_FINAL3104.jpg)
The Hyacinth Walk offers peace of mind with a delightful array of spring gems and the fragrant perfume of fresh hyacinths
Location: Lincolnshire
![Warming the View](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Warming_the_ViewIOM21_4.jpg)
Cornus 'Mid-winter Fire' working its magic on a frosty winter's morning!
Location: Lincolnshire
![Catherine Wheel](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Cornus_Grace_IOM_upload_113.jpg)
A shaft of afternoon sunlight picks out a circle of leaves like a catherine wheel: Cotinus 'Grace' on the 5th November, an appropriate display of fireworks
Location: Lincolnshire
![Contrast](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Contrast_IOM_upload.jpg)
An intricate pattern of box ball and cone topiary is immaculately clipped - a marked contrast to the relaxed, overflowing, colourful herbaceous border beyond
Location: Sturton by Stow, Lincolnshire
!['Red Velvet'](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Red_Velvet_IOM_uploadJuly20_26.jpg)
Rosa 'Munstead Wood' with curvaceous petals lit by afternoon light and shade seems like red velvet
Location: Lincolnshire
![A New Dawn](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/A_new_Dawn_3_IOM_FINALBest_IOMMay20_79.jpg)
Nectaroscordum siculum flowers first emerging in soft, early morning light
Location: Lincolnshire
![The Colours of Spring](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Colours_of_Spring_best_IOM20_79.jpg)
The joy of new rainbow colours amidst fresh spring foliage
Location: Lincolnshire
![Autumn Chorus](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Autumn_Chorus_IOM2_19.jpg)
Single white Colchicum 'Album' and double, violet -pink Colchicum autumnale 'Water Lily' amongst the first fall of leaves
Location: Lincolnshire
![Summer Velvet](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Summer_Velvet_FINAL_IOM_June18_36_(51).jpg)
Rosa 'Joseph's Coat' petals seems particularly rich in colour this summer,like scarlet velvet
Location: Lincolnshire
![Colours of spring take flight](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Colours_of_Spring_Take_Flight_4_IOMFINALmay18_23.jpg)
An orange-tip butterfly, the spring butterfly, on cow parsley
Location: Lincolnshire
![The arrival of Spring](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Arrival_of_Spring_at_Ashfield_House_IOM_April18_57.jpg)
Snakeshead fritillaries nodding in long-awaited sunshine
Location: Lincolnshire
![Dessication](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Dessication_IOM_feb17_7.jpg)
Dipsacus fullonum; striking dried-up teasel seedheads still reaching for the sky
Location: Carlton Scroop, Lincolnshire
![Picturesque](https://www.professionalgardenphotographers.com/assets/portfolio/small/Picturesque_175.jpg)
The Grass Terrace and Long Border at Hotel Endsleigh, a surviving Humphry Repton design
Location: Devon