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Tulips at a Cotswold Country Garden
Few gardens can rival the tulip display at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire, where between 800 and 1,500 are added every year.

Looking over display of tulips towards a summerhouse at Trench Hill, Gloucesteshire. A hexagonal wooden summerhouse alongside a wildlife pond planted with marginals at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire Tulipa 'Banja Luka' with summerhouse behind at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire. A hexagonal wooden summerhouse at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire View across flowerbeds filled with tulips toward a flowering prunus and the house at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire. A spring display of tulips and amelanchier at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire. Flowerbeds full of tulips at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire Tulips in the West Border at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire, with a Cotswold drystone wall behind and views towards countryside. A spring display of pastel tulips at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire Yellow and red tulips at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire, with view to countryside. Tulipa 'Beauty of Spring with red tulips at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire. A view over tulips to Cotswold countryside at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire. A spring display of tulips and amelanchier at Trench Hill, Gloucestershire





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Winter at The Picton Garden
So often snowdrop collections are little more than a mass of white. The Picton Garden is different with winter borders that show how to create a memorable display.

A colourful winter display at The Picton Garden with cornus, silver birch and Luzula sylvatica 'Auria'. A gravel path winds between colourful winter borders at The Picton Garden with cornus, silver birch and Luzula sylvatica 'Auria'. A gravel path winds between log-edged borders planted for winter colour at The Picton Garden. View across a winter border with cyclamen, snowdrops and Iris reticulata at The Picton Garden. A log-edged gravel path winds through winter borders with cyclamen, snowdrops, Luzula sylvatica 'Auria', silver birch  and cornus at The Picton Garden. A log-edged gravel path winds through winter borders with cyclamen, snowdrops, Luzula sylvatica 'Auria', silver birch  and cornus at The Picton Garden. A winter display of snowdrops, cornus and Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' at The Picton Garden. A winter display of coloured stems at The Picton Garden with Cornus alba 'Westonbirt' and Salix alba 'Golden Ness'. A view through the winter borders at The Picton Garden. Blue Iris reticulata and snowdrops in foreground with flowering erica - heather beyond. Luzula sylvatica 'Auria'  and Cyclamen coum at The Picton Garden. A homemade bug hotel made from recycled materials at The Picton Garden. Prunus mume 'Beni-Chidori' - Japanese apricot - February A winter border at The Picton Garden with Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Irene Paterson', Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' and Galanthus plicatus.





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Step-by-Step Creating an Auricula Theatre
For centuries, gardeners have exhibited their most prized plants, but it wasn't until Victorian times, when the beguiling beauty of Auricula primulas won countless admirers, that miniature theatres were created to showcase their charms.

Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 1: assemble tools and pre-cut lengths of 50 x 150mm planed timber, marine plywood back, and shelf supports. Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 1: assemble tools and pre-cut lengths of 50 x 150mm planed timber, marine plywood back, and shelf supports. Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 2: assemble the different sections on a table to check how everything fits together. Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 3: mark the side pieces at 23cm intervals, for the shelf supports which are cut at about 60° on the front edge, to be less obtrusive. Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 3: mark the side pieces at 23cm intervals, ready for the shelf supports to be glued and nailed into place Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 4: lightly tap in panel pin guides to support the shelf supports precisely in position during gluing Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 4: lightly tap in panel pin guides to support the shelf supports precisely in position during gluing Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 5: partly tap two nails into each shelf support. Then position against the panel pin guides on the side pieces, ready to glue Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 6: having partly tapped  two nails into each shelf support, position against the panel pin guides on the side pieces, ready to glue Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 7: drizzle glue onto the underside of each shelf support, as well as on the sides, and hammer in the nails Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 7: drizzle glue onto the underside of each shelf support, as well as on the sides, and hammer in the nails Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 8: having firmly glued each shelf support into position, hammer in the nails, and leave the glue to cure for several hours Step-by-Step Making a Plant Theatre. Step 9: once the glue has cured, remove the panel pin guides





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Snowdrops at Downton House in Gloucestershire
Downton House, Gloucestershire, has a collection of around 60 snowdrop varieties, many of them named after Cotswold growers.

Winter border with frost and snowdrops at Downton House, Gloucestershire Sunshine on frosted border with snowdrops at Downton House, Gloucestershire Sunshine on frosted border with snowdrops at Downton House, Gloucestershire Sunshine on frosted border with snowdrops at Downton House, Gloucestershire Sunshine on frosted border with snowdrops at Downton House, Gloucestershire The bronze foliage of Libertia peregrinans sets off the flowers of Galanthus 'Bertram Anderson'.
The bronze foliage of Libertia peregrinans sets off the flowers of Galanthus 'Bertram Anderson'. Galanthus 'Bertram Anderson' planted with the bronze foliage of Libertia peregrinans. Galanthus 'Bertram Anderson' - snowdrop - January Galanthus 'Bertram Anderson' with Libertia peregrinans Galanthus 'Bertram Anderson' with Libertia peregrinans Winter sunshine on snowdrops and hellebores at Downton House, Gloucestershire Galanthus elwesii 'Daphne's Scissors' - snowdrop - January





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National Collection of Roses (Rambling) at Moor Wood
Around 150 different rambling roses are grown in an informal country setting in the heart of the Cotswold countryside.

View across garden to house at Moor Wood, Gloucestershre, with rambling roses, and clipped hedges View over roses and across garden to the house at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire View over roses and across garden to the house at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire View across garden towards house at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire, with rambling roses. View across garden towards house at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire, with rambling roses. Roses over the house at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire View across garden and wild flower meadow at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire. View across garden and wild flower meadow at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire. Pink rose over the house at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire Pink rose over the house at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire Morning sun on roses and ox-eye daisies with gravel path leading to stone pillars at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire Roses and ox-eye daisies with gravel path leading to stone pillars at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire Roses and ox-eye daisies with gravel path leading to stone pillars at Moor Wood, Gloucestershire





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Autumn at The Picton Garden
The family-run Old Court Nurseries and The Picton Garden hold the Plant Heritage National Collection of Michaelmas daisies (asters).

A gravel path through borders of asters and other autumn flowers at The Picton Garden, Herefordshire A curved gravel path through borders of asters and other autumn flowers at The Picton Garden, Herefordshire A log-edged gravel path through woodland planting leading to a bug hotel at The Picton Garden, Herefordshire Bug hotel in the woodland garden at The Picton Garden, Herefordshire Gravel path through borders with asters and Persicaria virginiana 'Painter's Palette' at The Picton Garden, Herefordshire Mixed asters in a border at The Picton Garden, Herefordshire Asters, persicaria and other autumn flowers at The Picton Garden, Herefordshire Asters, persicaria and other autumn flowers at The Picton Garden, Herefordshire Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop' and Echeveria 'Etna' in the succulent bed at The Picton Garden, Herefordshire. Colchicum speciosum 'Album' - autumn crocus- September Salvia 'Amistad' - September Dahlia 'Brown Sugar' - September Dahlia 'Brown Sugar' - September





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Compact Clematis from Raymond Evison
Today's clematis plants are very different from the old varieties, many of which have gorgeous flowers, but can be unruly and gangly, whereas modern cultivars are bred to be more compact in habit.

Raymond Evison in his nursery, planting up a bowl with Clematis 'Bijou' as a main display Clematis 'Bijou' planted up in a wide shallow bowl. A female clematis flower bud has its sepals delicately cut away as part of its emasculation. A female clematis flower bud has its sepals delicately cut away as part of its emasculation. A female clematis flower bud has its sepals delicately cut away as part of its emasculation. A female clematis flower bud has its sepals delicately cut away as part of its emasculation. A female clematis flower bud has its sepals delicately cut away as part of its emasculation. A female clematis flower bud has its sepals delicately cut away as part of its emasculation. A female clematis flower bud has its sepals delicately cut away as part of its emasculation. A female clematis flower bud has its sepals delicately cut away as part of its emasculation. A unique label is prepared for the emasculated clematis mother flower. The clematis female flower's style is placed in a paper bag to prevent it being accidentally pollinated The clematis female flower's style is placed in a paper bag to prevent it being accidentally pollinated





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Gardening in Miniature
Pint-sized gardens demand gallons of imagination, and the smaller the plants, the greater the variety that can be grown in a limited space. This is where alpine and rock plants come into their own, flowering profusely between early spring and summer.

Ray and Wendy Bates, of Rotherview Nursery. Ray and Wendy Bates, of Rotherview Nursery, with their dog, Lacey, Ray and Wendy Bates, of Rotherview Nursery. An alpine trough garden, flanked by Acer palmatum 'Crimson Queen'. Top trough: Geum 'Flames of Passion' and Heucherella 'Sweet Tea'. Below right: tumbling white Arenaria montana and pink Armeria maritima splendens. Third trough down right: Houstonia caerulea, Saxifraga cuneifolia 'Variegata' and Erodium quantum. Bottom fern trough: Cyrtomium fortunei and Dryopteris erythrosora. Iris setosa dwarf. Top far left: Erodium 'Katherine Joy', Linaria alpina, Geranium sanguinems var. striatum and Deschampsia flexuosa 'Tatra Gold'. Mossy trough below: Scleranthus uniflora

Tiny front trough: Sedum spathulifolium 'Capo Banco', Sedum reflexum 'Gold Form' and Sedum spurium 'Schwarze Block'. An alpine trough garden, flanked by Acer palmatum 'Crimson Queen'. Top trough: Geum 'Flames of Passion' and Heucherella 'Sweet Tea'. Below: tumbling white Arenaria montana and pink Armeria maritima splendens. Below: Houstonia caerulea, Saxifraga cuneifolia 'Variegata' and Erodium quantum. Bottom ferns: Cyrtomium fortunei and Dryopteris erythrosora. Iris setosa dwarf. An alpine trough garden, flanked by Acer palmatum 'Crimson Queen'. Top trough: Geum 'Flames of Passion' and Heucherella 'Sweet Tea'. Below right: tumbling white Arenaria montana and pink Armeria maritima splendens. Third trough down right: Houstonia caerulea, Saxifraga cuneifolia 'Variegata' and Erodium quantum. Fern trough: Cyrtomium fortunei and Dryopteris erythrosora. Iris setosa dwarf. Troughs of sempervivum and sedum. An alpine trough garden, flanked by Acer palmatum 'Crimson Queen'. Top left trough: Geum 'Flames of Passion' and Heucherella 'Sweet Tea'. Below right: tumbling white Arenaria montana and pink Armeria maritima splendens. Third trough down right: Houstonia caerulea, Saxifraga cuneifolia 'Variegata' and Erodium quantum. Top left: Erodium 'Katherine Joy', Linaria alpina, Geranium sanguinems var. striatum and Deschampsia flexuosa 'Tatra Gold'. Trough of house leeks. Front silvery Sempervivum arachnoideum. Right: Sempervivum 'Terracotta Baby'. Left: red Sempervivum arachnoideum 'Rubrum' and green Sempervivum 'Reinhard' In central trough, tumbling white Arenaria montana and pink Armeria maritima splendens. To right: blue Houstonia caerulea. To left: Erodium 'Katherine Joy', Geranium sanguinems var. striatum. Trough planted with Houstonia caerulea, Saxifraga cuneifolia 'Variegata' and Erodium quantum. Trough planted with tumbling white Arenaria montana and pink Armeria maritima splendens. An alpine trough garden, flanked by Acer palmatum 'Crimson Queen'. Top trough: Geum 'Flames of Passion' and Heucherella 'Sweet Tea'. Below: white Arenaria montana and pink Armeria maritima splendens. A slate crevice garden planted with tiny alpines such as erodiums, armeria, thyme, sedum, Veronica umbrosa 'Georgia Blue', Androsace lanuginosa and Parahebi x william 'Kea'





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A National Collection of Buddleia
A balmy summers day spent strolling through the gardens at Longstock Park Nursery vividly illustrates why Buddleja are commonly known as the 'butterfly bush'. For here, flitting to-and-fro amongst countless flowers, are scores of butterflies.

A Painted Lady butterfly on Buddleja davidii 'Windtor' A Painted Lady butterfly on Buddleja davidii 'Windtor', butterfly bush flowering from July. A Painted Lady butterfly alights on Buddleja davidii 'Windtor', butterfly bush flowering from July. Peter Moore, curator of a National Collection of Buddleja at Longstock Park Nursery, deadheading Buddleja davidii 'Sugar Plum', a cultivar he raised. Peter Moore, curator of a National Collection of Buddleja at Longstock Park Nursery, deadheading Buddleja davidii 'Sugar Plum', a cultivar he raised. National Collection of Buddleja. Bed of Buddleja davidii. Front 'Marbled White'. To left: B. weyeriana 'Pink Pagoda'. Right: Buddleja 'West Hill'. National Collection of Buddleja displayed in long border. Right to left: B. davidii 'Shire Blue', white B. davidii 'Darent Valley'. National Collection of Buddleja displayed in long border. Buddleja davidii 'Darent Valley', a recent vigorous white flowered introduction. National Collection of Buddleja displayed in long border.  Left to right front: B. davidii 'Border Beauty', 'White Profusion' and 'Shire Blue'. National Collection of Buddleja displayed in long border. Left to right: Buddleja davidii 'Buzz Lavender' next to white-flowered 'Darent Valley'. National Collection of Buddleja displayed in long border. Right to left front: B. davidii 'Southcombe Splendour' and 'Black Knight'. Behind: 'Royal Red' and 'White Profusion'. National Collection of Buddleja displayed in long border. Centre: B. davidii 'Moonshine'. On right B. davidii 'Valley View Blue'. On left: B. davidii 'Sugar Plum'. National Collection of Buddleja displayed in long border. Centre: B. davidii 'Sugar Plum'. Right: B. davidii 'Moonshine'. Behind: B. davidii 'Valley View Blue' and B. davidii 'Darent Valley'.





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Late Winter Garden at Colesbourne Park
Winter at Colesbourne Park is a colourful affair thanks to a major snowdrop collection and sympathetic planting.

Snowdrops, winter aconites and cyclamen coum in the Spring Garden at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire. View across the Spring Garden at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire. Border planted with snowdrops, winter aconites and cyclamen coum. Snowdrops, winter aconites and cyclamen coum in the Spring Garden at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire Snowdrops, winter aconites and cyclamen coum in the Spring Garden at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire Snowdrops, winter aconites and cyclamen coum in the Spring Garden at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire Snowdrops, winter aconites and cyclamen coum in the Spring Garden at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire Naturalised snowdrops with Cylcamen coum at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire Naturalised Cyclamen coum at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire The ice house at Colesbourne Park with naturalised snowdrops and Cyclamen coum in the foreground. View through woodland with naturalised snowdrops at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire Frost on snowdrops and Cylcamen coum in a mossy stone trough at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire. Winter view of the garden at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire, with Cornus sanguinea 'Midwinter Fire' in the foreground. Winter view of the garden at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire, with Cornus sanguinea 'Midwinter Fire' in the foreground.





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