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Devon Life cover

Thanks Devon Life for a nice front cover, march 2013… lovely Magnolias, easy to shoot really… you just need blue sky and a great Magnolia in full bloom… the garden photographer’s season starts with a bang!

Devon Life front cover, Magnolia in full effect!

Devon Life front cover, Magnolia in full effect!

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Spring is nearer….

Lovely little shoot at one of my favourite gardens, Bristol University Botanical Garden…. Prunus mume in full effect… at last! after weeks of cold, the air feels milder and there is some colour!

Blossom at Bristol Botanic Gardens

Blossom at Bristol Botanic Gardens, spring is here!

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Snowdrops…

Snowdrops, a garden photographers favourite… we’ve spent the best part of two months couped up in an office, and now we can get up and out, and shoot some flowers… to me it signals the start of the ‘season’… here are a few from last year…

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Galanthus (snowdrops), harbingers of spring… at last…

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Overbecks Garden, National Trust, Devon

Garden Photography at Overbecks, general view

Garden Photography at Overbecks, general view

Tulip, Overbecks, Devon, National Trust

Tulip, Overbecks, Devon, National Trust

 

 

Its a beautiful time of year down at this garden on the south coast of Devon.  I normally think of it as a late summer ‘spectacular’, but its good at any time.  These were photographed early morning in April… a beautiful garden overlooking Salcombe estuary… all the ingredients to make for a good days garden photography!

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Snowdrops are all the same

All snowdrops are the same.  Aren’t they? Flower and garden photography makes you look closely at the details, and these lovely little spring flowers are distinctive in their details… they may look like ‘little white flowers’, but look closely and the differences are evident.  I shot these pictures at East Lambrook Gardens (former home of margery Fish, now owned by Mike Werkmeister), last spring… and I’m already looking forward to February when these plants will break through the frosty ground and pressage the oncoming spring… how poetic I am feeling this morning…

Galanthus elwesii 'Daphne's Scissors'

Galanthus elwesii 'Daphne's Scissors'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snowdrop in spring

Galanthus gracilis 'Corkscrew'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Galanthus 'Robin Hood'

Galanthus 'Robin Hood'

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Spring cherry trees

Recently travelled up to glorious Staffordshire (??) to shoot a piece for Homes and Gardens… a spring garden with some ‘lovely cherry trees’ they said… well they weren’t far wrong… beautiful light, great garden, nice cuppa tea from the gardener and a traffic free journey (5am helps)… turned out nice… see you all at Chelsea Flower Show? it’s coming…

spring cherry trees

spring cherry trees in Staffordshire garden

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Rosemoor in spring

Have just completed the spring part of my year long job for the R.H.S (Royal Horticultural Society) at Rosemoor Garden in North Devon. Spent another glorious day there on Monday… spring well and truly sprung, with more greenery than….well… something green… It’s such a beautifully kept garden, and I hope I’m managing to capture it for them.  Here are some shuttlecock ferns near the stream…

Spring at Rosemoor Garden, Photography

Spring at Rosemoor Garden

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Dittisham spring

Been weekending in Dittisham, shooting for the lovely ‘Fingals’ hotel... Spotted these spring flowers in the village…

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baby chicks

awww…. shot this last year fro a book about the slow movement… signs of spring? not many here, it’s ANOTHER dull monday… can’t wait to get out and shoot some pictures… off to Paris tomorrow, and guess what?  the forecast is terrible…

Baby chickens

Baby chickens

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