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TULIP FEVER
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Lazy lawncare
Spring shrubs
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Container kit
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A showcase of spring’s most colourful bulbs at DUNSBOROUGH PARK
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Serenity NOW
Behind ancient walls, sheltered from the roar of the M25, Dunsborough Park in Surrey is a haven of historic calm where formal gardens, parterres and meadows are packed with silken tulips, chosen by Baroness Sweerts de Landas Wyborgh
WORDS ANNETTE WARREN PHOTOGRAPHS JOANNA KOSSAK
Opposite By the Folly Bridge, the dreamy strawberries-and-cream hues of tulips ‘Finola’ and ‘Angélique’ match the apple blossom. This image Naturalised tulips in the prettiest bulb meadow.
Form & FLOURISH
An accomplished Arne Maynard design for the garden of The Old Rectory in East Sussex has met the owners’ desire for decadent romance and bohemian charm, while providing a unifying structure thanks to well thought out topiary and clever landscaping decisions
WORDS BENJAMIN POPE PHOTOGRAPHS CLIVE NICHOLS
Opposite
This image Tulips ‘Pretty Princess’, ‘Purple Parrot’, ‘Liberstar’ and ‘Ronaldo’ in The Old Rectory’s romantic spring garden.
Yew and beech topiary is an Arne Maynard trademark.
Play TIME
Spring is when the fun begins at Cerney House as tulips romp through the four growing spaces, injecting energy, movement, mischief and splashes of bold colour throughout this otherwise timelessly romantic Cotswold garden
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS MANDY BRADSHAW
Tulips in sunset shades of orange and coral feature in long borders alongside the yellow daisies of doronicum.
Little ITALY
The visionary creator of Portmeirion, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis brought a touch of the Mediterranean to his own garden at Plas Brondanw in the Gwynedd countryside, where classic statuary and mountain peaks are framed by scintillating topiary shapes in a quirky fantasia of a garden
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS JOE WAINWRIGHT
This image A tree seat and railings are painted in Clough William-Ellis’s trademark turquoise. Opposite The mountains of Eryri National Park lie just beyond the garden.
Sue’s greenhouse looks out onto a gravelled area where euphorbia has seeded itself around an informal
parterre.