Wild WEST
The Atlantic coast is both a blessing and a curse at Dominic Black’s outrageously eclectic Cornish garden where just about anything goes. It’s filled with temptingly tropical treasures from across the globe – all arranged in the style of a cottage garden
WORDS NON MORRIS PHOTOGRAPHS RICHARD BLOOM
Dominic Black’s Mousehole garden is filled with exciting plants, including huge mounds of Tibouchina urvilleana in regal purple.
At your LEISURE
Offering a gentler sense of romance once the heady rush of summer has subsided, Iford Manor in Wiltshire basks in the gentle glow of autumn allowing a relaxed opportunity to explore its soft planting and Harold Peto’s fascinating design
WORDS BENJAMIN POPE PHOTOGRAPHS JOE WAINWRIGHT
Iford Manor Garden’s limestone Great Terrace with its classical statuary and deep borders filled with catmint and other bushy perennials.
A well-used terrace at the top of the garden has replaced an expanse of lawn and o ers wonderful views of the Peak District hills.
Only CONNECT
At a windswept sloping garden, starkly divided by a vast retaining wall, in Derbyshire’s Hope Valley, designer Phil Hirst undertook a grand project of reunification, using harmonious hard landscaping softened by pretty flowers to bring the site together
WORDS JAYNE DOWLE PHOTOGRAPHS SARAH CUTTLE
Feast for the EYES
The gorgeous five-acre gardens at Goldstone Hall in the North Shropshire countryside have been developed by the same family over 50 years, and key to their appeal is the attractive and productive kitchen garden where flowers and edibles jostle side by side
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS JOE WAINWRIGHT
This image Mauve limonium and white leucanthemum daisies are grown for cutting. Opposite Thistly globe artichokes are a striking feature in the central herb borders.
LAST HURRAH
Say goodbye to summer with a rush of colour and taste from this celebration of sumptuous dahlias and inky sweet blackberries
Enjoy a feast for the senses as summer goes out on a high with fiery dahlias, apples, berries and turning foliage.
