Nicola Stocken
Gardens photographer and writer specialising in magazine features of images and text
A contemporary courtyard garden within a completely redeveloped Victorian house by award-winning architects
A practical guide to planting a stone trough with alpine plants
Flowering spectacularly for weeks, kousa dogwoods are also prized for winter structure, fruits and handsome foliage
A walled garden filled with roses, perennials, a beehive, sunny terrace and miniature wildflower meadow
A well designed child friendly garden for all the family, with trampoline and sandpit amongst colourful planting
A step-by-step guide to planting an Alpine hanging basket
A clever garden layout makes the most of an unusual fan-shaped plot and is enjoyed all year round
Novice gardeners’ step by step guide to planting a pot in May, that by June supplies herbs
An informal, quarter-acre hillside plot that, come spring, abounds with spring bulbs and frothy perennials
There’s no surer sign that spring is in the air than blossom and blooms on boughs and branches
A winding, decked path between packed borders makes a long narrow summer plot appear wider
Spring in this traditional garden brings fresh foliage, blossom and the flowering of 2000 tulips
Small town garden with early summer pots, terrace, lawn and herbaceous borders of cottage garden style planting
