Cambo Gardens, UK

Blue skies make for lovely postcards. Photographers, however, tend to greet them with rather more caution. Throw in a brisk coastal breeze sending bright white clouds scudding across the sun and the light changes by the minute, deepening colours one moment before washing them out the next. In a garden as boldly planted as Cambo, that can be both a blessing and a challenge. Saturated drifts of echiums, eryngiums, achilleas and grasses are forever shifting in mood, demanding patience if they're to look exuberant rather than overpowering. Yet those same fleeting changes are part of the garden's appeal. Long views down the sloping borders, the rhythm of the planting and the movement of grasses in the wind combine to create compositions that are never quite the same twice. A garden that rewards careful timing almost as much as careful gardening.