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Tag Archives: gardens There is something uniquely timeless about monochrome or black and white photography. Even though we’re surrounded by colour – especially in a garden – there is nothing quite like black and white for capturing mood or highlighting graphic lines and shapes. The sweeping curves of this levada in the Monte Palace Gardens, Madeira, immediately caught…  Popular in large public parks and gardens, the winter-flowering Mahonia provides a welcome splash of colour for the garden photographer at a time of year when bright colours are in short supply. Its vivid yellow flower clusters glow in the weak winter sun and, as an added bonus, the evergeen, waxy and often spiky foliage has strong, architectural qualities…  For the past ten Thursdays I’ve been doing an amateur garden design course at Ness Gardens on The Wirral, organised by the horticultural department of Rease Heath College in Cheshire. The course has been great fun and a very interesting insight for me, as a garden photographer, into what goes into the creation of a garden. More… |
