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Best English Homes Competition Gallery

 

In our December issue, we are running ten pages of winning and highly commended entries from our Best English Homes Competition. But our readers sent in many more wonderful pictures than we could squeeze in, so here are more of those we admired and commend for their inspirational design and planting.

'A secret paradise hidden from view' is how Marion Smith of Aberystwyth describes her south facing garden. She is particularly proud that there is something in bloom every day of the year.
Phormiums and rhododendrons complement a weathered terracotta vase in the garden of Michael and Pauline Hill from Sheffield.
Sibylle Stauffacher has filled her garden in Beinwil am See, Switzerland, with many David Austin roses. The border is planted with lavender and false cypresses.
     
Agaves and potted hostas surround a dining area on the decking in the garden of Jane Scorer of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
 Karin Hewlett, Spalding, Lincolnshire, has fashioned a romantic retreat with roses and waterfalls. Gunnera, irises and ligularia hang over mossy rocks by the pond in Sue Nickerson’s garden in Thetford, Norfolk.
     
     
By exploiting the natural conditions in her sheltered valley near St Ouen, Jersey, Judith Queree has created a garden filled with rare species. Bright gold Choisya ternata ‘Sundance’ and dusky purple irises make a fine show in the East Yorkshire garden of Evelyn Bayfield. Ducks and moorhens have made themselves at home in the wildlife garden of Anne and Bob Smith Keitley from Shropshire.
     
 
 
 
An ivy wreathed mask surveys Wendy Gilbert’s garden in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.
 
 

 

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