Paula McWaters

3 weeks ago | gardensillustrated.com | Paula McWaters

Anne Olivieri is a perfectionist. When you have 7,500 tulips to plant and are expecting some 4,500 visitors to come and see them over the early May Bank Holiday weekend, nothing can be left to chance. Anne and her husband René host the annual Morton Hall Tulip Festival in the grounds of their Georgian home in Worcestershire. Sponsored by Bloms Bulbs, it is a fundraiser for the Royal Shakespeare Company and it has to be show-stopping.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Paula McWaters

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1 month ago | gardensillustrated.com | Paula McWaters

To stroll around Maurice Foster’s undulating hillside garden in Kent in springtime is to take a lesson not only in botany and horticulture but also in geography. Prize magnolias, rhododendrons and camellias flower at every turn of the grassy paths and this master plantsman can tell you a tale about any one of them.