Recent blog posts:

• Spring wild flowers in Portugal

  

  18 April 2013

  I spend a lot of time in Portugal, as we are lucky enough to have a small home in the north central hills of the country. At Easter I photographed some of the wild flowers that grow in profusion around our village. If anyone can help me to identify the name of the deep blue flower you see here (the final image), I’d be most grateful!

• Abbotsford gift cards

  

  05 September 2012

  I’m very pleased to announce selection of my images of the walled garden at Abbotsford (home of Sir Walter Scott in the Scottish Borders) have been licensed by the Abbotsford Trust as gift cards – now on sale in the shop in their brand new visitor centre.

• Gardens of Scotland – Shepherd House (part 1)

  

  10 April 2012

  I’m delighted that I’m going to be spending the next 12 months photographing Shepherd House Garden at Inveresk, just outside Edinburgh. Shepherd House is one of the finest small gardens you’re likely to see…

• Gardens of Scotland – Inveresk Lodge

  

  21 January 2012

  I’m fortunate enough to live within a mile or two of several lovely gardens, including a couple that belong to the National Trust for Scotland. One of these is Inveresk Lodge Garden near Musselburgh… [click on title to read more and view photos]

• Gardens of Scotland – Attadale

  

  01 November 2011

  Attadale Garden, near Strathcarron in Wester Ross, is not somewhere that you can just call into spontaneously – you really have to want to go there… [click on post title to read more and view images]