Summary of garden achievements:

2006 Winner Walsall in Bloom large rear garden category

2007 Winner of the Daily Mail National Garden Competition

2010 Winner ‘Overall Gardener of the Year’ Garden News National Competition

2010 BBC2 Gardeners’ World half-hour television ‘special’, showing our garden in all four seasons. 

2010 Featured in magazines in China ‘Floral Time’ and Holland 'Home and Garden'

2011 Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time feature

2011 Featured in 5 national newspapers in one day, and in Romanian magazine ‘Adevarul’

2011 BBC News photo gallery website “In pictures: Spectacular autumn colours in Walsall garden’

2012 Featured in National Geographic Traveler (China) magazine

July 2012 Views of our garden photos on Flickr reach one million

Since May 2006 we have welcomed more than 9,000 visitors to our charity garden open days.  We are sincerely grateful to our visitors for raising over £28,000 for our named charities, with by far the largest share going to the National Garden Scheme.

We have been a member of the National Garden Scheme (ngs) since January 2008

To find our future charity garden open days - just follow the link “Visiting us”. 

Welcome to our four seasons garden website.  There are many photos on this site, which may make some pages slow to open. However, we trust that your patience will be rewarded by some enjoyable pictures.

Although we have had no horticultural training, and are totally self taught, we believe we have created something very special.  We have re-landscaped and planted our garden to be exciting in all four seasons. The garden is now used and enjoyed by our family and many visitors of all ages.

We have derived immense pleasure from doing this huge project together without outside help. It has been very satisfying to use so many skills, and to have done every task ourselves, despite us both having had full time jobs until retirement in October 2009.  All but two of all the plants in our garden have been planted by us.

We hope the photographs convey some of the pleasures our garden has given to our family, friends and visitors.

                         Marie and Tony Newton

Our house plaque

We are currently amending this site. 

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“A garden like no other!”  

                                                        (the comment from one garden judge!)

Our other website on Flickr has very many more photos (see link below).

There has been considerable national and international interest in our Flickr photos.  There have been over one million picture views of our photos on Flickr.

In Flickr press “profile” to view our most interesting Flickr photos.