Nicola Stocken
Gardens photographer and writer specialising in magazine features of images and text
A coastal cottage garden with spectacular sea views overlooking a bay in the Orkney Isles
A town garden based on a circular theme, featuring a colourful annual display in containers
A 1.5-acre garden divided into garden rooms with formal courtyard, parterre, cherry walk, terrace and large topiary
The garden of Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain, the head-gardeners at West Dean, around their eighteenth-century cottage
A walled garden with terraces featuring a herb lawn, summerhouse, formal pond and vegetable garden
A 1 acre garden with a series of lawns, beds and borders linking a potager, orchard, formal parterre and seating areas
A step-by-step guide to creating a hanging basket filled with herbs
By late summer, cottage style borders peak in a small town garden wrapped round a mediaeval farmhouse
Roses flower from spring, through summer, into autumn, with a wide range of planting companions
In spite of poor soil, sea spray and merciless winds, by summer this coastal garden is full of life, shells and driftwood
An old family country garden that blends borders with meadows, rills, herbs and June’s roses galore
A small country garden where summer roses and perennials spill over in a parterre and a potager peaks
A suburban garden where a collection of salvage finds is transformed into unusual plant containers
In summer this small town garden is alive with roses and perennials amongst salvage finds
Small town garden with early summer pots, terrace, lawn and herbaceous borders of cottage garden style planting