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 contemporary courtyard garden within a completely redeveloped Victorian house by award-winning architects
An elegant contemporary garden with lawn, patio and decked terrace surrounded by colour and texture
Come midsummer, Easton Walled Gardens is filled with sweet peas, buzzing bees and a sweet fragrance
A 1.5-acre garden divided into garden rooms with formal courtyard, parterre, cherry walk, terrace and large topiary
An inspirational, half-acre garden with lawns, hedges, topiary, wildlife pond and herbaceous borders
The garden of Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain, the head-gardeners at West Dean, around their eighteenth-century cottage
At Newby Hall, a seamless transition between generations has ensured the great 25-acre garden has thrived
Major Iain Grahame has established a remarkable collection of old-fashioned roses, many have a rich heritage
A secluded city garden with outdoor living spaces and herbaceous borders designed around curved lines
A walled garden with terraces featuring a herb lawn, summerhouse, formal pond and vegetable garden
An award winning garden in a challenging position with circular lawn, gravel garden and mature planting
A walled garden filled with roses, perennials, a beehive, sunny terrace and miniature wildflower meadow
A 1 acre garden with a series of lawns, beds and borders linking a potager, orchard, formal parterre and seating areas
Flowering from spring into summer, peonies and the Itoh varieties, have many admirers
A classic English cottage garden with romantic borders and arches laden with climbing roses.
A stylish country courtyard garden with beautiful planting around salvaged furniture and antique decorations
A well designed child friendly garden for all the family, with trampoline and sandpit amongst colourful planting
A step-by-step guide to planting a hot summer display in a copper pot
A step-by-step guide to creating a hanging basket filled with herbs
A step-by-step guide to planting an Alpine hanging basket
Step-by-step of a child planting a collectible wheelbarrow with succulents
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
A contemporary town walled garden insummer that maximises limited space with a sunken terrace and raised beds
A small summer garden set against the backdrop of a public park, rural in outlook whilst in a town location
Summer flowers and tropical plants fill a small town garden, amongst salvage finds and recycled junk
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
By July, some areas of the garden are looking tired, so plant a pretty pot to inject instant colour
A small country garden where summer roses and perennials spill over in a parterre and a potager peaks
There’s no quicker way to brighten up patios, decks and terraces than with container planting
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
A traditional country garden celebrated for magnificent herbaceous borders and rose gardens in summer
A half-acre village garden that peaks in late summer with colour themed borders of choice plants
A small village garden planted to peak in late summer with herbaceous perennials and roses
A clever design with pergola, sunken potager and summer flowers creates a space for entertaining
Resting between town and countryside, this family garden integrates play areas and summer flower borders
A long, thin town garden planted for year round interest, with abundant flowering in late summer
A suburban garden where a collection of salvage finds is transformed into unusual plant containers
Easily grown annuals and perennials provide fresh cut flowers for posies and bouquets well into autumn
A late summer garden that envelops a cottage in herbaceous, shady and container planting areas
A riverside garden with prairie style borders of grasses and perennials that peak in summer
In summer this small town garden is alive with roses and perennials amongst salvage finds
Late summer colour and exotic planting add a special charm to this beautiful rural family garden
A winding, decked path between packed borders makes a long narrow summer plot appear wider
Charming 15m x 29m town garden with summer roses and cottage garden planting embracing a Victorian house
Modern topiary garden of giant yew and box shapes, a parterre with standard holly and gravel, and pool in summer
Lilies are spring and summer bulbs with stunning lily flowers in white, pink, orange, cream, deep red or yellow
In August at Holt Organic, the gravel garden of herbaceous perennials, kitchen garden and wildflower meadow peak
Fragrant and purple in the summer sun, Hitchin Lavender fields peak in August with long rows of flowers to pick
Summer garden peaks in August with herbaceous perennials, roses and clematis in beds, borders and a parterre
Small town garden with early summer pots, terrace, lawn and herbaceous borders of cottage garden style planting
There are different bulbs to flower in winter, spring, summer and autumn, naturalised or in borders, beds or pots
Summer town garden sees cottage style herbaceous borders perennials, a shady pool, hosta walk, lovely pots, greenhouse
Small suburban garden with herbaceous beds, grass paths, thatched summer house and pond edged in marginals
