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by Joanna Fletcher


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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.