I was thrilled and honoured to be asked to photograph the private garden of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall’s private garden for the current issue of @countrylifemagazine . Thanks to @tiffanydaneff @paulaslester @lford1 🖋 @themontydon Posted @withregram • @countrylifemagazine ‘It is my refuge,’ The Duchess of Cornwall — and this week’s guest editor of the magazine — tells writer and gardener Monty Don, as she discusses Raymill, her private home and gardens in Wiltshire. [It is] ‘the one place where I can be completely relaxed on my own terms.’ The 12 acres of gardens are formed with an ‘uninhibited floral freedom’: swathes of roses clamber up every available surface and a large, productive kitchen garden lies at the centre. There are pockets of open ground, too — a wildflower meadow and another which houses The Duchess’s seven beehives. Perhaps the most bemusing element is the family of ‘remarkably life-like’ elephant sculptures that live in the far corner of a paddock, partially hidden by copper beeches — or the painted tiger sculpture which can be seen creeping out from behind the laurel. ‘The best gardens are where Nature, humanity and personality come together,’ Monty attests, ‘blended with a deep love of place and home — and Raymill has that in spades.’ – – – by Jason Ingram for Country Life- – -#countrylifemagazine #countrylife #raymill #wiltshire #gardens #englishgardens

I was thrilled and honoured to be asked to photograph the private garden of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall’s private garden for the current issue of @countrylifemagazine . Thanks to @tiffanydaneff @paulaslester @lford1 🖋 @themontydon Posted @withregram • @countrylifemagazine ‘It is my refuge,’ The Duchess of Cornwall — and this week’s guest editor of the magazine — tells writer and gardener Monty Don, as she discusses Raymill, her private home and gardens in Wiltshire. [It is] ‘the one place where I can be completely relaxed on my own terms.’ The 12 acres of gardens are formed with an ‘uninhibited floral freedom’: swathes of roses clamber up every available surface and a large, productive kitchen garden lies at the centre. There are pockets of open ground, too — a wildflower meadow and another which houses The Duchess’s seven beehives. Perhaps the most bemusing element is the family of ‘remarkably life-like’ elephant sculptures that live in the far corner of a paddock, partially hidden by copper beeches — or the painted tiger sculpture which can be seen creeping out from behind the laurel. ‘The best gardens are where Nature, humanity and personality come together,’ Monty attests, ‘blended with a deep love of place and home — and Raymill has that in spades.’ - - - by Jason Ingram for Country Life- - -#countrylifemagazine #countrylife #raymill #wiltshire #gardens #englishgardens

2 thoughts on “I was thrilled and honoured to be asked to photograph the private garden of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall’s private garden for the current issue of @countrylifemagazine . Thanks to @tiffanydaneff @paulaslester @lford1 🖋 @themontydon Posted @withregram • @countrylifemagazine ‘It is my refuge,’ The Duchess of Cornwall — and this week’s guest editor of the magazine — tells writer and gardener Monty Don, as she discusses Raymill, her private home and gardens in Wiltshire. [It is] ‘the one place where I can be completely relaxed on my own terms.’ The 12 acres of gardens are formed with an ‘uninhibited floral freedom’: swathes of roses clamber up every available surface and a large, productive kitchen garden lies at the centre. There are pockets of open ground, too — a wildflower meadow and another which houses The Duchess’s seven beehives. Perhaps the most bemusing element is the family of ‘remarkably life-like’ elephant sculptures that live in the far corner of a paddock, partially hidden by copper beeches — or the painted tiger sculpture which can be seen creeping out from behind the laurel. ‘The best gardens are where Nature, humanity and personality come together,’ Monty attests, ‘blended with a deep love of place and home — and Raymill has that in spades.’ – – – by Jason Ingram for Country Life- – -#countrylifemagazine #countrylife #raymill #wiltshire #gardens #englishgardens”

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