Have you ever wish that you could step into the luxurious private gardens of some of the world ’s most telling estates ? Do you ever imagine whether or not your pet celebrities garden , and what sort of things they grow ? Victoria Summerley ’s new bookThe Secret Gardenersgives access to twenty - five breathtaking gardens possess by famous person in the UK . Hugo Rittson - Thomas ’ gorgeous photos make you feel as if you are really there , tour these unbelievable estates .
Today we are sharing a peep into five of the gardens , and if you want to see more , there are enough more stunning pic from these and the other twenty celebrity gardens featured .
Sting
When sway star Sting is not touring the earth , he is busybodied growing his own food for thought and tend to his flower beds . He owns a large , beautiful garden in Wiltshire with his wife Trudie Styler .
The grounds include a kitchen garden , a 300 class old pig beech tree , a grass maze , a roseate garden , a lime tree walkway ( above ) , and a pee garden with a stream that flows from the estate of the realm directly into the Avon river . The garden beds closest to the house are formally planted and manicured , as exemplified by one bed that has Trudie ’s and Sting ’s initials intertwining decoratively in the centre of it .
As you move further from the house , the garden becomes less stately and wilder , with masses of hellebores , foxgloves , and geraniums growing freely and a water garden that feels lush and natural .
Photo credit: Branson family photos.
The dimension even has a military personnel - made lake which Trudie designed . The lake is planted with reed specifically intended to benefit wildlife that make their home ground there .
Branson Family
Sir Richard Branson is most well known for being a talented investor and man of affairs , his philanthropic work , and for founding the Virgin Group , a large transnational corporation . However , horticulture has always been a large part of Branson ’s lifetime and continues to wreak a major role in the lives of his children and grandchildren .
The Branson kin demesne , place in Oxfordshire , includes beautiful gardens , wildlife home ground , and play sphere for children . Originally intentioned by Sir Richard as a haven for his two kid , Holly and Sam , the garden has grown over clock time and so have the Branson tiddler , who are now adult with young children of their own and have buy the property where they produce up . The estate has been divided up into two properties with some shared field ( including a born-again barn that the family use for parties and events ) where Sam and Holly each live with their families as closemouthed neighbors .
The estate contains a Isle of Man - made lake , which was one of the first things Richard Branson had put in when he and his married woman move there with their untested kinsfolk so many years ago . The lake was built with wildlife in mind and to this twenty-four hours act as a habitat for a large flock of unfounded geese and other water bird throughout the yr .
The Branson family ’s garden is the prototype of aplay garden . The acres is full of tree to climb and it features a cricket pitch , a wildflower field , a tricked - out Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree house , and loads of wild that is just require to be explored by little adventurers .
Prue Leith
Food author , novelist , and far-famed chef Prue Leith originally moved to Oxfordshire to set up a duck farm , but when that sprain out to be visionary for her restaurant , she stayed at her raw rural estate and grew a garden that look equally fit for a distinguished chef or a sea captain cosmetic nurseryman .
Large pots brim over with herb tolerate outside next to the back door so that Prue has easy access to fresh herbs when she is whipping up something magical in the kitchen . Herbs are n’t the only matter that Prue get to cook with . The grounds hold a bombastic decorative kitchen garden with topiaries and formally planted beds , where vegetables grow under insensate human body and beneath cages to protect them from the local dame .
fall apart by a decorative wall lie what Prue calls the Red Garden . The Red Garden pops with red flowers and foliage and large decorative elements — a bridgework , a pagoda , hang lantern — in bright red , which look sensational against the lucullan green of the garden .
Jeremy Irons
When honorary society - award - winning thespian Jeremy Irons first started acting as a young human being , he worked part - time as a nurseryman in ordering to supplement his income , and gardening has remained a part of his life .
Located in Oxfordshire , Irons ’ grounds are resplendent with classical jet , rock ‘n’ roll walls obscured by bunch of mounting pink wine , and neatly planted efflorescence border . The intact estate , with its eighteenth - century mansion and manicured hedging , exudes traditional English garden elegance , but has no touch of pretension . The design is advanced and refined , but welcoming and casual all at once — Irons and his wife , Sinéad Cusack , even host the local community flower show from their b !
The property also have a gorgeous pool bursting with waterlilies . The arching bridge above the water garden land to listen Monet ’s far-famed lily pool and feels like the perfect stead to get hold a sense of calm amidst the emphasis of daily life , which is exactly what Irons aims for in the garden . Irons order that he enjoy visiting garden because “ not only do you see inside other peoples ’ souls , but you find your own … it ’s very peaceful and very calming in this bustling populace that we live in . ”
Rupert Everett
Rupert Everett is an actor know for his purpose inThe Importance of Being Earnest , My Best Friend ’s Wedding , and is the star of the upcoming Oscar Wilde biopicThe Happy Prince . When he ’s not write , manoeuvre , or acting in film , Everett garden with his mum .
The Everett ’s have owned their Wiltshire property for 40 years , and Rupert is slow taking over the gardening duty from his female parent , Sara , who lives with him on the estate . The garden butt the river and hold in a man - made stream that fall into a large body of water garden boozer with lilies .
The Everett ’s garden is most stunning in the summer , when the house is covered with climbing roses and hang back wisteria , and terracotta pile overrun with bright pinkish yearbook flank the water features . Dahlias , peony , and David Austin roses also make up a magnanimous luck of the Everett ’s plenteous flower beds .
A squat sure-enough garner building sit slimly elevated on studdle Stone , which work to keep the storey dry and the cuss out . The entire berth has a genuine English rural area garden feel , with a small dose of surplusage that makes it resistless .
publish with permission fromThe Secret nurseryman : Britain ’s Creatives Reveal their Private Sanctuariesby Victoria Summerley , © 2017 . publish by Frances Lincoln Press . Photography © by Hugo Rittson - Thomas except where otherwise say .
Victoria Summerleyis an award - winning garden journalist and X - editor in chief of theIndependentnewspaper in the UK . She lives in Bibury , Gloucestershire , the village once delineate by William Morris as “ the most beautiful village in the Cotswolds . ”
About the Photographer
Hugo Rittson - Thomasis one of the UK ’s leading portraiture photographers . He start his vocation in the art earthly concern , study at Central St. Martin ’s and Goldsmiths University of London , and demand part in the watershed exhibition Temple of Diana alongside Tracey Emin at The Blue Gallery in 1999 . In 2012 he was privately commissioned to photograph the Cotswolds garden of Eyford House , Corwill Manor and Asthall Manor and has worked alongside acclaimed garden photographer Andrew Lawson .
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