The Garden Photographer
Welcome! my name is Mark Bolton and I photograph and write about gardens and plants, mostly for editorial or commercial clients. I am passionate about gardening in my little cottage garden, and live in South Devon, near to the sea.
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Exeter University Botanic Gardens and Grounds, summer photography
I have been very lucky to be asked to photograph the wonderful university of Exeter botanic Gardens and grounds this year. This is an ongoing project, and my first set of Summer images has been delivered. What a lovely job this has been.
T...
Letting Nature In
The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) seems to be breaking in to this garden, through the garden gate
Scrabbling around at the back of a border, I spot the small pink flower of a Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum), and its finely cut fol...
Rain
The rain to the wind said, 'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt
And lay lodged — though not dead
I know how the flowers felt.
Robert Frost
Apparently, the sun is on its way this week...
This one is for the 'shedfans' out there
Shed. It’s a strangely emotive word and one that can bring out the romantic in many a gardener! Typically a single storey wooden building with a roof (the term probably comes originally from the word ‘shade’ and may have been somewhere to h...
Magnificent May
What a wonderful month May turned out to be. Obviously it’s a month that signals the end of spring, and the slow, or in this case, slightly quicker, meander into Summer. Verdant greens, olive tints, emerald and acid hues; foliage erupting a...
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My name is Mark Bolton, and I'm a garden and plant photographer working for editorial clients. I wrote and photographed a book about my own garden in 2024, 'A New Cottage Garden', which is now in its second print run. I live in South Devon.
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