Located in the heart of the Garden of England, the acre of
gardens at Wimborne House provide the material for Joanna's
photographs. Trained as an Ecologist and a graphic designer
she has built a varied landscape featuring a wild flower meadow and
orchard, Potager and lawned gardens. Flowers both wild and
cultivated feature in her photographs and the chickens also provide
good subjects if they can be persuaded to sit for their picture!
The Wild Flower meadow was created in 2000 from a derelict and
wet field. Full of blackthorn scrub and couch grass, a mowing
regime has bought local plants to light such as ladies smock, lesser
knapweed, field buttercup, field geranium and oxeye daisies.
Natives local to the area such as cowslips, ragged robin, hawkbit
and devil's bit scabious have been introduced as well as snake's
head fritillary
which are thriving in the damp conditions.

The Potager was started in 1998 and now has a framework of raised
beds and borders. The Herb Garden has a central rose bed
featuring a mosaic ball and contains a variety of medicinal and
culinary herbs such as Germander, Woad, Sweet Woodruff and White
Hoarehound. A new living willow tunnel supports sweet peas and
clematis in the summer.

