Barrington Court, a National Trust property in Somerset.

The garden at Bateman's, Burwash, East Sussex, once home to writer Rudyard Kipling - photographed in June

The garden at the National Trust's 18th century Beningborough Hall, near York, North Yorkshire

Bourton House Garden, Gloucestershire, photographed after August rain.

Bowmere Cottage in Tarporley, Cheshire, has a one acre traditional English country style garden around a Grade II listed house. Lawned areas are surrounded by well stocked herbaceous and shrub borders. There are two courtyard gardens, which feature annuals and lilies in containers, as well mature Hydrangeas. There is also a small kitchen garden.

Breezy Knees Gardens, near York, photographed at the end of July. They cover 20 acres and are one of the largest gardens in the North of England. Over 6,000 different varieties of plants can be found in a range of garden areas, including: a cottage garden; rose garden; rock garden; raised beds; a lawned garden; double herbaceous borders; and a section dedicated to invasive, 'thuggish' plants, called a 'Rogues Gallery'.

The garden at Bryn Alyn Manor, a a private property in North Wales - photographed in late July

The secluded plant-filled garden of Brooke Cottage, Cheshire, photographed in May. The owners moved into the cottage in 1996, when the garden was bare apart from a large Leylandii hedge, scrubby lawn and a large section at the front of the house completely obscured by a conifer and a Rhododendron ponticum. Surrounded by mature trees and shrubs, it is now divided into three distinct areas with seats placed to provide a range of views of the garden. The front garden comes alive in May with a variety of Azaleas and Rhododendrons providing a striking display of colour – adding structure in this area is a larch, pruned into the shape of an umbrella. This merges into a more muted and restful woodland area, with its distinctive lizard water feature and a small circular patio surrounded by Acers, Brunnera, and other shade-loving plants including more than 30 varieties of fern. At the back of the property the main patio comprises a small pond and 40 large containers fed by a watering system with bold leaved plants including a wonderful display of 25 varieties of Hostas. Finally, pathways of granite setts lead through an ivy-clad brick archway to another section of the garden where there are mixed herbaceous borders and island beds planted in a naturalistic style with grasses and perennials. Different types of Euphorbia, Alliums and Scabiosa provide interest in late spring, while an area planted with Anthriscus ‘Ravenswing’, Aquilegia, Persicaria ‘Superba’ and Astrantia creates a meadow-like effect, popular with bees and other insects.

Bryn Bellan is a tranquil, elegant garden near Mold, North Wales. It has a partly walled upper garden together with a circular sunken lawn featuring a Sequoia and white and green themed mixed borders. The lower garden has an ornamental cutting garden, two perennial borders, an orchard and potting shed. There are many spring bulbs, iris, peonies, hydrangeas and cyclamen.

The gardens at Chartwell, Kent, the former home of Winston Churchill, photographed in June.

The garden at the 300 year old Church Cottage in the pretty village of Parwich, Derbyshire, photographed in July. These images will be available for second rights publication from late 2021

The garden at Crûg Farm Plants where many of the outstanding and unrivalled selection of plants grown in their nursery can be seen.. Located in Caernarfon, North Wales, it is photographed here in October.

The Courts Garden, Wiltshire, photographed in April

A range of images of the gardens at Dalemain, near Penrith, Cumbria - photographed in spring, summer and autumn

Dyffryn Fernant Garden, Pembrokeshire, South Wales - photographed in August

Dyrham Park is a late 17th-century mansion, garden and deer park, located near Bath, Somerset.

Field House, Cheshire, the garden of designer Emma Aspinall, photographed in late July

Great Dixter, one of the UK's finest gardens at Northiam, Rye, East Sussex photographed in June

The garden at Gwaenynog Hall photographed in early June. The property, parts of which date to the 16th-century, was home In the late 19th century to Beatrix Potter's aunt and uncle Harriet and Fred. The author visited regularly between 1895 to 1913 and described this as the ‘prettiest kind of garden, where bright, old fashioned flowers grown amongst the currant bushes’. In fact the gardens inspired her to write The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, and she used her sketches of garden features to illustrate the book.

A range of stock images of Hidcote Manor Garden, Gloucestershire

High Hatton Hall, near Shawbury, Shropshire, photographed in July. The gardens surround a grade II listed home. There are extensive, and lavishly planted herbaceous borders surrounding formal lawns. There’s also a formal pool surrounded by colourful pots and Salvias; a large walled kitchen garden; a front garden area with more borders and shrubs, as well as a large display of hanging baskets; and a rose pergola.

Hillside Cottage is a private garden, close to the River Dee in Flinsthire, North Wales.

Laskey Farm in Thelwall, Cheshire photographed in late August. It is a 1 ½ acre garden featuring a maze showcasing grasses and prairie style planting, which is particularly colourful in late summer/early autumn. There are also herbaceous and rose borders, a vegetable area, a greenhouse, a parterre and Interconnected pools for wildlife.

Manley Knoll, Cheshire, photographed in May. This is an Arts and Crafts garden created in the early 1900s. Covering six acres, it is divided into different rooms including parterres, clipped yew hedging, ornamental ponds, a sunken garden, kitchen garden, a small orchard and herbaceous borders. With views across the Cheshire Plain, the garden also has a bluebell-carpeted sandstone quarry garden, planted with a range of Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Pieris.

A private garden, in Park Crescent, Appleton, Cheshire, is seen here photographed in July. It contains many unusual plants, mature trees and a mini orchard. Other features include: ponds; wildlife-friendly planting; raised beds; many varieties of roses; and herbaceous borders. The garden, which has developed over 19 years and is still evolving, has been split into distinct areas on different levels each with their own view across the garden. It is open through the National Garden Scheme.

The private garden at Pen-y-Graig, near Denbigh in North Wales, photographed in May. It is home to around 500 Rhododendrons and Azaleas. The garden is the work of Colin Mugridge, who has also created over 100 hybrids. Colin has uniquely been able to grow all these normally acid loving plants in the alkaline soil of this former limestone quarry.

The gardens at Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, photographed in August

The sloping, hillside garden at Plas yn Rhiw, is located near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, North West Wales. It covers about one acre and is terraced - divided by hedges into several small sections. The garden is planted with a mix of native wildflowers and cultivated plants. It's the only organic National Trust garden in Wales.

These images will be available from late summer 2020 due to pending publication.

This is a private garden, near Denbigh, North Wales, photographed in September. Covering just over an acre, the garden has been created by owner Tony Burrows on a sloping site, overlooked by the Clwydian range and the iron age hillfort Moel Arthur. It comprises a number of island beds, combined with large trees - with the herbaceous planting providing abundant late summer/early autumn colour. Grasses are used throughout the garden, with a number of varieties providing form and movement - contrasting with the blocks of colourful perennials. Near the house is a kitchen garden together with plants such as Salvias, lavenders, Rudbeckias and Persicaria.

A private, rural garden in Staffordshire, photographed in early June. It has been created over a period of 40 years - and comprises two gardens which were unified when the owners bought an adjoining semi-detached property and incorporated it into their home. The garden is made up of rooms, connected by a number of meandering paths – an arrangement that increases the perception of size. It is densely and imaginatively planted featuring a wide range of shrubs and herbaceous perennials, including: Irises, ferns, clipped box domes, alpines, shrub and climbing roses, lawns and the vivid magenta Gladiolus Byzantinus (Communis). There are also kitchen garden areas and a greenhouse.

Sandymere, a private garden near Tarporley, Cheshire, photographed in June. The garden is noted for its Rill Garden, Rhododendrons and Azaleas, terraces, herbaceous borders, ponds, lakes and large Hosta Garden

Seend House in Wiltshire is a Georgian property with six acres of gardens. Overlooked by the village church and with views over the Salisbury Plain, it features a rose garden, a sweeping river of lavender, clipped box domes mixed with Salvia and Nepeta, a knot garden which can be viewed from above, formal borders and a renovated walled garden. It is photographed here in June.

These images will be available for sale from late 2020 due to pending publication.

Sissinghurst Castle Garden, a national Trust property photographed during an open day in June

The garden in Statham Avenue, Lymm, Cheshire, seen here photographed in early June. It has evolved over the last 30 years under the care of the current owners. The problems caused by the garden's steeply rising slope have been solved by developing several levelled sections. These have allowed for the creation of colourful open sunny beds contrasting with a number of shady secret places. Vibrant Azaleas and Rhododendrons combine with deep borders filled with Peonies, Alliums, Gunnera, Irises and a range of other herbaceous plants and shrubs. The garden also has a beautifully designed greenhouse and kitchen garden area, as well as a number of patio areas with seating. Wirework pieces created by Angela Sidwell, are placed strategically around the garden, including an enigmatic seated figure. Walking to the top of the garden takes visitors up 'Thomas's Steps' below the Bridgewater towpath, with a gate opening onto the canalside itself.

Stockton Bury Gardens, Herefordshire, photographed in May

The Birches in Mollington, Chester, is a half acre garden, photographed in August. It includes a front garden with pale/white herbaceous borders. The back garden comprises a number of distinct areas, including: a Koi and wildlife pond with two large herbaceous borders; a small rose garden, a grasses and tropical border with fernery; an orchard with hens and bees; a vegetable garden; and a wildlife stream and sunken garden.

These images will be available from April 2020 due to recent publication.

The Old Dairy House is a Grade II listed property which originally formed part of the Trentham Estate. It forms the backdrop to a two acre garden with shaded areas for rhododendrons and azaleas plus shrubberies, hostas and ferns, mature trees, cottage garden planting and long borders. It is photographed here in late May.

The garden at Wildegoose Nursery in the Shropshire hills, photographed in mid-August. This small independent business is housed within the old red brick walls of a former kitchen garden. Here the wonderful plants grown in the nursery are showcased. They are planted in great, informal drifts of colour and form, with sections divided up by verdant hedging. The borders also function as a stock beds from which the owners propagate and continually test the garden-worthiness of the plants they sell.