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Mary Giblin has gardened all her life but after completing a design course, her new space has had the benefit of what she calls a ‘garden-changing’ approach
WORDS BARBARA SEGALL PHOTOGRAPHS ANNA OMIOTEK-TOTT
This image A view of the house from just beyond the allium-edged kitchen garden, enclosed by a metal estate-style fence. Opposite Existing hedges are now neatly trimmed and shelter colour-themed borders
Character STUDY
Passionate plant lover Jane Collins believes every specimen has its own character, which must be respected, and by playing to their strengths has made a charming froth of a garden at Orchard Cottage in East Sussex
WORDS PAULA MCWATERS PHOTOGRAPHS SARAH CUTTLE
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Colourful alliums, geraniums and geums,
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with Rosa ‘Violette’ and Clematis ‘Morning Star’. Opposite Long grass in a wild meadow area surrounds a bug hotel.
Lilac scabious studs the meadow grass, beneath a shapely Betula ‘Fascination’ at Tythe Barn in Oxford.
GOLDEN Wonders
Wonderlands by Clare Coulson explores the glorious gardens of 18 renowned landscape architects. In this exclusive extract from her book, she visits the North Wiltshire home of Catherine FitzGerald and Dominic West
WORDS CLARE COULSON PHOTOGRAPHS ÉVA NÉMETH
A Tall Order
In the space behind the modest row of cottages where he lives on the outskirts of Leeds, so called ‘Delphinium Dad’ Colin Parton has established the most incredible National Collection of towering Delphinium elatum cultivars
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS NICOLA STOCKEN
Colin Parton’s impressive National Collection of 106 Delphinium elatum cultivars, which he grows behind his home in Leeds.