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Summer Garden Gallery

Including LCC Gardening Competition entries

Shetland News @shetnews

18 June 2020 02:33

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ONE GOOD thing to come out of the lockdown is that most of us have had more time to spend in the garden. With the local shops providing plants via Shetland nurseries, there’s been no stopping Shetland’s green fingers!

So, get your cameras and phones out, and send us proof of your endeavours.

Submissions for the Summer gallery are closed.

NEW! The winners, and all other entries have been added to the gallery, fresh from Lerwick Community Council. The non-winning entries are unnamed – if they are yours and you would like your name added to the caption, please email us or contact us via Facebook Messenger.

Click the first image to enable a scrollable gallery, click a photo to zoom in.

LCC Garden Competition Winner, Overall Winner: Pat Williamson, Burnside.

LCC Garden Competition Winner, Overall Runner-Up: Doreen Thomason

LCC Garden Competition Winner, Environmentally Friendly: Denyse Harper, Hjaltland Place

LCC Garden Competition Runner-Up, Environmentally Friendly: Chris Horrix, Twageos Road.

LCC Garden Competition Third Place, Environmentally Friendly: Rhona Summers, Hayfield Lane.

LCC Garden Competition Rubber-Up Place, Environmentally Friendly: Chris Horrix Twageos Road.

LCC Garden Competition Winner, Small & Colourful: Mida Hawick, South Lochside.

LCC Garden Competition Runner-up, Small & Colourful: Peem McNeillie, North Road

LCC Garden Competition: Set A (1)

LCC Garden Competition: Set A (2)

LCC Garden Competition: Set A (3)

LCC Garden Competition: Set A (4)

LCC Garden Competition: Set B (1)

LCC Garden Competition: Set B (2)

LCC Garden Competition: Set B (3)

LCC Garden Competition: Set B (4)

LCC Garden Competition: Set B (5)

LCC Garden Competition: Set B (6)

LCC Garden Competition: Set C (1)

LCC Garden Competition: Set C (2)

LCC Garden Competition: Set C (3)

LCC Garden Competition: Set C (4)

LCC Garden Competition: Set C (5)

LCC Garden Competition: Set C (6)

LCC Garden Competition: Set C (7)

LCC Garden Competition: Set D (1)

LCC Garden Competition: Set D (2)

LCC Garden Competition: Set D (3)

LCC Garden Competition: Set D (4)

LCC Garden Competition: Set D (5)

LCC Garden Competition: Set E (1)

LCC Garden Competition: Set E (2)

LCC Garden Competition: Set F (1)

LCC Garden Competition: Set F (2)

LCC Garden Competition: Set F (3)

LCC Garden Competition: Set G (1)

LCC Garden Competition: Set G (2)

LCC Garden Competition: Set G (3)

LCC Garden Competition: Set H (1)

A trio of Elaine Falconer’s Roses.

Wild Shetland Water Lily, photographed by Linda Gray, on a Westside loch.

Very pretty – Doreen Thomason’s garden.

Fabulous Peony, sent in by Barry Ward.

Elaine Nisbet’s garden in Lerwick, that she gained with the house when she moved about two years ago.

Heaven-scent – the flowers around John Bateson’s Bressay house.

Lisa Ryder sent this photo of Freya’s delightful trow/fairy garden. Freya is age 11 from Gulberwick.

Lovely like last year, Elaine Falconer’s rockery bed with Foxgloves and Poppies.

The flower and seed pod of the New Zealand Flax, sent by Elaine Falconer.

Turk’s-Cap Lilies, sent by David Leask, taken in Sundibanks, East Voe, Scalloway.

Barry Ward sent us this picture of deep red-pink lilies.

This Foxglove is putting on a grand show in Doreen Thomason’s garden.

A Round-leaved Sundew by Huxter Loch in Whalsay, photographed by Angela Irvine.

Large White butterfly; photo sent by Christopher Mowat.

Elaine Falconer sent this pretty Shetland Rose to us.

Palm tree in Elaine Nisbet’s garden.

A pretty pot of Petunias and Lobelia, in Jessamine Copland’s garden at Lochend.

A selection of pretty pots in Doreen Thomason’s Nederdale garden.

Felix Tibbs’ nephew, of Aith, Fetlar took this photo of a Dandelion.

Elaine Falconer’s delightful Rose.

Lynne Watson took this lovely photo while at St. Ninian’s Isle.

Apples growing in Jessamine Copland’s polytunnel, at Lochend.

Wallflowers in Geoff Brown’s Sumburgh garden, sent in by Doreen.

A sea of Bog Cotton, photographed at Atlaness, Hamnavoe, Burra, by Barry Ward.

Shrubs in Elaine Nisbet’s garden.

Christopher Mowat sent this pretty pink shrub photo.

Chris Horrix’s border, with perennials and summer bulbs coming into bloom under the trees.

A space to relax, Doreen Thomason’s garden in Lerwick.

Sunny shot of Elaine Falconer’s pretty rockery flower beds.

Busy bee on Margaret McNiven’s Geranium.

Lovely photo of Jessamine Copland’s creamy-white Rose.

Border around Elaine Nisbet’s house in Lerwick.

Barry Ward sent us this photo of his garden.

Beautiful and strongly coloured: Chris Horrix’s Lilies.

Penelope Smith caught this butterfly heading for a Hebe in the Lanes area of Lerwick.

Intense red of Margaret McNiven’s Poppies.

Doreen Thomason’s garden in Lerwick.

Elaine Falconer’s garden with local fauna.

A lush bog garden, photographed in Scalloway by Jane Moncrieff.

Beautiful red Peony, sent in by Rozalyn Quarmby.

Clematis making use of this tree in Elaine Nisbet’s Lerwick garden.

More fruit in Jessamine Copland’s polytunnel, this time Pears.

Mona Walterson had the great idea of repurposing this chair, which was ready for the dump, into a plant support – a ‘living chair’.

Bountiful harvest following on from flowers and green fruit, these are Jessamine Copland’s Cherries grown in her polytunnel.

A very pretty Fuchsia hanging basket, belonging to Elaine Falconer.

Pretty red Rose, sent by Elaine Nisbet.

Iain Malcolmson’s garden at Grunnabreck.

Rozalyn Quarmby’s tree, in her Cunningsburgh garden.

Meadow Rue, Thalictrum Delavayii. “I love the hundreds of bright starry flowers glowing in the sunshine” – Chris Horrix.

John Bateson’s Honeysuckle given free rein – can just imagine the delicious scent surrounding Hunchibanks, Bressay.

Photo of Elaine Nisbet’s pond.

Garden photo, with lovely trees too, sent by Sioban Tekcan.

Lots of differnt shrubs and trees in this garden, sent by Elaine Nisbet.

Margaret McNiven’s path with thriving borders.

The bottom of Elaine Falconer’s garden in Kergord.

Great view from Ian Malcolmson’s garden.

Orchids, the photo taken by Karen Fraser during a walk at Setter, Burra.

The ‘Cat and the Palm’, an Elaine Nisbet photo.

Space to relax in Rozalyn Quarmby’s garden.

Raised beds in the sun – Iain Malcolmson sent us this photo.

Another shot of Elaine Falconer’s garden.

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