Garden Pics - Garden Photos

Chase looking at the water, originally uploaded by ginthefer.

I came across this photo purely by accident and I love it! This young boy sitting on the stone slabs by a natural water garden setting immediately brought to mind the image of a young Zen master peacefully enjoying the moment and basking in the gardens around him.

jenny n persian shield, originally uploaded by la fattina.

Flowers are nice but but I really love it when gardeners get creative with foliage. This foliage combination of creeping Jenny with Persian shield uses sharply contrasting colour and shape to really pop out and make a statement.

Japanese Garden, originally uploaded by deegs.

Biddulph Grange is a National Trust house and landscaped gardens, situated in Biddulph near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. “Behind a gloomy Victorian shrubbery there’s a gloomy Victorian mansion, but behind that lurks one of the most extraordinary gardens in Britain…it contains whole continents, including China and Ancient Egypt - not to mention Italian terraces and a Scottish glen.

Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by Mike Rollinger.

In the Egyptian part of the garden, “Two sphinxes guard the mastaba-like entrance to a tunnel, whose darkness is an invitation to explore. Deep inside is a bloody chamber (lit by a hidden window of red-coloured glass) in which squats the half-spooky, half-comic figure of the Ape of Thoth.”

Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by kev747.

The true brilliance of Biddulph Grange “lies in the way that Cooke and Bateman hid the different areas of the garden from each other, using heaps of rocks and thickly planted shrubberies’ the design locks together as tightly as a jigsaw or a cross-section of the brain.” It contains “a series of Italianate terraces, connected by steps and enclosing small flower gardens’ at the bottom, long, buttressed hedges enclose a dahlia walk.”

Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by quimby.

Garden Lantern, originally uploaded by Gigapic.

This garden photo really shows the kind of tranquil setting that I would love to have in my backyard one day. I can hear the sound of the water trickling down through the rocks as it weaves through the colourful folliage in this lush Japanese garden. This picture makes it clear to me how moss growing on the stone lantern is a key element when it comes to designing a Japanese garden. These are the kind of small details that need not to be overlooked!

Middle Garden May, originally uploaded by Four Seasons Garden.

Tony and Marie Newton have nurtured this beautiful private English garden located just outside Birmingham to award winning status two years in a row. Their garden won last year’s Daily Mail National Garden Competition and in 2006 they grew to win Walsall in Bloom. Tony and Marie have many more lovely garden photos to share but this one featuring both pagoda and wooden foot bridge is my favourite. See more of the Four Seasons Garden at: www.fourseasonsgarden.co.uk

Our Pond and Garden, originally uploaded by BabciaZ.

I’m not entirely certain that this is a cottage garden but it seems to resemble the picture in my mind when I think of a cottage garden. I love the clear definition of each plant grouping and I’ve always been a big fan of the bright yellow of rudbeckia. The garden is beautiful but the wooden shed tucked in the back is what really adds the rustic “cottage garden” characterfor me. What a lovely garden and captured in such perfect photo composition.