Sea Salve
Its maritime setting offering the cosseting conditions needed for the sort of subtropical treasures Erika Schüle-Grosso adores, this Lyme Regis garden has been her salvation, its intensive multi-level planting giving her the impetus to put all her troubles to one side and get out and about in all weathers
Both house and lushly planted garden overlook Lyme Bay, with views from the top terrace taking in the sandstone cli s of Golden Cap.
WORDS MIKE PALMER PHOTOGRAPHS JAMES OSMOND
Private ENTERPRISE
A North London renovation project for Brandon Schubert and his husband made use of designer Tabi Jackson Gee’s innovation in creating a secluded idyll of a garden with a deceptively mature feel in a matter of mere months
WORDS VIVIENNE HAMBLY PHOTOGRAPHS JASON INGRAM
A secluded seating area set on elegant reclaimed York stone paving, and completely enclosed in the embrace of mature green planting.
Billowing banks of ox-eye daisies, Crambe cordifolia and lupins, presided over
by Penny Kennedy’s Mouse Cottage.
Keep on Growing
The second act of Penny Kennedy’s life began at Mouse Cottage in the Perthshire Highlands, and the gloriously abundant cottage garden she has created proves that you’re never too old for change and new challenges
WORDS HELEN CROSS PHOTOGRAPHS RAY COX
Eyes Front
Despite Edinburgh’s Dick Place sitting in a regulation-bound conservation area, Tracy McQue had free rein to enact one of her most famous designs, creating a front garden that still regularly stops passers-by in their tracks
WORDS SHEILA M. AVERBUCH PHOTOGRAPHS RAY COX
The front garden is bisected by a zigzag white wall sinking into a sea of bobbing alliums, with an old pollarded ash standing sentinel.
Frills & Spills
Flamboyantly ruffled flowering cherries are an exciting sign that spring has well and truly sprung, says Tony Kirkham MBE, and there’s a whole host of suitable garden cultivars to choose from
PHOTOGRAPHS ANNAÏCK GUITTENY
Perfect sugar-pink pompons on Prunus ‘Asano’, a small, vaseshaped tree with upright branches introduced from Japan in 1929.