
Anyone would be forgiven for thinking this photograph shows a Shropshire garden in mid-winter - not just days before the start of the summer.
There was a family celebration at Chelsea this morning when Shropshire father and daughter companies both bagged Silver Gilt.
Shropshire’s engineering genius Thomas Telford is the inspiration behind an innovative show garden at this year’s famed Flower Show. Peter Johnson talks to the prime plotters.
The search is on to track down some of the best gardens around, from colourful postage-stamp plots to something sprawling and rural.
Reg Anslow has lived in Marchamley for 23 years and in that time has created a colourful one third of an acre garden with year round interest around his white cottage.
A Broseley garden, created by the Reverand Michael Pope and his wife Gillian, will be open to the public this weekend under the Open Gardens Scheme.
A display garden to celebrate the achievements of Thomas Telford, the father of civil engineering, is fast taking shape to go on display at Chelsea Flower Show next week.