Summer splendour
Petersham Nurseries’ GORGEOUS
GARDEN
plus six more SUN-DRENCHED spaces
WILDLIFE
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Out of the WOODS
SARAH GILES PHOTOGRAPHS SUZIE GIBBONS
At French Court Farmhouse in East Sussex, from what was once a densely wooded space with trees growing right up to the windows Suzie Gibbons and Guy Chadwick have carved out open meadow and a sun-drenched courtyard garden filled with Mediterranean planting
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box balls contrast with a luminous planting of lavender, alliums and Mexican
with a water feature made from a stone horse trough.
Shaggy
fleabane
All the cottage garden classics keep Upper Woodhill Farm looking colourfully abundant all summer long.
Local LEGEND
A chocolate box cottage set in a picture perfect garden, Upper Woodhill Farm in Surrey is locally famous for its charming froth of abundant yearround colour, easily viewed from its country lane setting
WORDS ANNETTE WARREN PHOTOGRAPHS CLIVE NICHOLS
Flying Colours
The historic gardens of Hutton-in-the-Forest in Cumbria have an established, rigid design that owner Cressida Fletcher-Vane and her gardening team have worked to soften with billowing annuals and perennials in all the colours of the rainbow – much to the delight of visitors
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& PHOTOGRAPHS JOE WAINWRIGHT
Crenellated sandstone Hutton-in-the-Forest overlooks towering foxgloves, Lychnis coronaria ‘Angel’s Blush’ and sweeps of nepeta.
A heady profusion of dahlias grows in the cutting garden, alongside towering hollyhocks, roses and scrambling nasturtiums.
Home EMPIRE
Gael and Francesco Boglione’s world-famous Petersham Nurseries is renowned for its relaxed naturalism and bohemian charm, and their own garden is now a wonderful extension of that same aesthetic
WORDS JODIE JONES PHOTOGRAPHS CLIVE NICHOLS
FANCY A FLUTTER?
For a gamble that will really pay off, fill your garden with the plants that will provide food and habitat for our struggling native butterfly populations, with guidance from Bob Purnell on supporting these most beloved of insects
The red admiral, once a summer visitor to the UK, is now, due to global warming, a year-round resident, shown here on
Verbena bonariensis