Green Roof Flourishes

My garage roof, planted with alpine strawberries and the kitchen roof, planted with London Pride, campanula and festuca glauca, are both growing well with few weeds and are beginning to knit together to cover the growing medium.

Out of hibernation and into the countryside

A wonderful day at One House Nursery. Open for the National Gardens Scheme, One House has a delightful woodland garden and a restored Walled Garden. Claire de Ruiter is currently artist in residence and is part of the Bollington Festival's Artists' Open Studios Trail.

Biodynamic Garden

The first biodynamic garden open to the public, at Garden Organic, Ryton.

Garden Organic

Apples and grapes, more bounty, at Garden Organic at Ryton.

Cheshire fruit farm

Apples on an autumn day at Eddisbury Fruit Farm, Kelsall, Cheshire, taken during a Cheshire Gardens Trust visit.

Pruning as art

Apples and pears as you have never seen them before. Museum garden at Castle Gaasbeek in Belgium.

Bailiff House at Gaasbeek

Stunning and evocative modern take on a medieval Flemish parterre garden by landscape architect Erik Dhont at the Bailiff House at Gaasbeek, Belgium.