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Gardens
A collection of evocative garden images. Possibly as a result of my previous incarnation as a gardener and designer I’m drawn to capture the ephemeral beauty of gardens and plants, then again maybe its just because ….!
Early Morning In The High Garden, Great Dixter
On a magical midsummer's morning; perfectly still and clear with the fresh scent of flowers and foliage in the air, quiet but for birdsong, gossamer traces of dew on fennels and alliums and with the warmth of the early morning sun on my face, it was truly entrancing to be in the High Garden at Great Dixter.
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Mixed Poppies – Welsh & Beth’s
Another beautiful morning at Dixter with the low morning sun just catching these lovely poppies; a mix of Welsh poppies and 'Beth's poppies' glowing against the darker background of the Sunk Garden.
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Welcome
An open gate; enticing you to enter the garden beyond. Taken at King John's Lodge, East Sussex.
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Wildflower Meadow
This card is a visual vignette of summer! A meadow full of ox-eye daisies, buttercups, yellow rattle and geraniums bursting with colour and life.
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Magnolia Mist
A beautiful misty morning. Framed by a pagoda in the gardens of Borde Hill, magnolia blooms catch the light from the rising sun.
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Beth’s Poppy
Charming and delicate, the paper-like flowers of Beth's poppy thread through the Peacock Garden at Great Dixter.
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Poppies In The Orchard Garden
The glorious sight of poppies in their pomp! This shot was taken at Great Dixter when the poppies were freshly opened, still crinkly and pristine, backlit by the early morning sun.
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Lathyrus grandiflorus
The true, everlasting pea growing in the Long Border at Great Dixter, rambling and scrambling up, through and over it's neighbours! These beautiful, delicate flowers were captured early one summer's morning.
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Tools At Rest
Wandering around Great Dixter I came across this charming collection of tools leaning against one of the topiary peacocks - I think their owner had slipped off for a morning cuppa, and I couldn't resist taking a shot before they came back!
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Mixed Border In Summer
A glorious picture of a mixed border in all its pomp and glory, with Verbena hastata, Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Lavendelturm’ and Clematis ‘Perle d’Azur’ stealing the show.
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Sussex Oast Garden
A gentle autumnal sun bathes the kitchen garden of this converted oast house, softening colours to the same gentle palette.
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