Andrea Jones

Discover one of England’s most admired historic gardens in this special evening event dedicated to the story of Melbourne Hall Garden.

Join us for the launch of the new title Melbourne Hall Garden, with photographer Andrea Jones, author Jodie Jones and chaired by George Plumptre.

Famed for its sweeping yew tunnel and Robert Bakewell’s extraordinary wrought-iron arbour – the celebrated ‘Birdcage’ that made his name – Melbourne Hall’s garden has changed little since the early 18th century. Yet in the 20th century, it underwent extensive restoration, and under the care of Lord and Lady Ralph Kerr it continues to flourish. Unusual specimen trees, shrubs, and herbaceous borders have been introduced, bringing fresh botanical interest to this classical landscape.

This talk will explore Melbourne Hall Garden’s layered history and celebrate its ongoing evolution. Join us for an evening of history, horticulture, and artistry in one of England’s great gardens.

To attend the event in person or to live stream, please click the link below:

The Garden Museum - events/talk - Melbourne Hall Garden

After last year's successful event,  Andrea will once again be hosting a weekend photography workshop at West Dean College within their celebrated gardens and arboretum. 

You don't need to be an experienced photograher,  bring any camera device, even a smart phone if you prefer. Just come and enjoy wondering with Andrea at these remarkable statuesque forms of nature and all their fascinating detail.

The group will be looking creatively at composition, use of  light, observation of pattern and capturing colour.

The aim of the course will be for students to capture images in a way not previously explored and to come away with photographs and ideas for images that may not have been achieved previously.

Depending on the weather,  the group may take advantage of the ‘golden hour’ by venturing out for a pre-breakfast photography session to capture first light and any morning mist. 

In case of rain there will be a covered area to work in and make creative arrangements using either natural or artifiial light 

After the practical sessions there will be an opportunity for image feedback, when you will be invited to share a selection of your new images with the group and learn from Andrea’s editorial photographic experience in the publishing world.

For more details and how to book, please click on the link below:

https://www.westdean.ac.uk/short-courses/swe38046-photography-focus-on-trees

Join Andrea at Killruddery in Co Wicklow, Ireland this October for a hands-on  two day photography workshop exploring their Gardens and Arboretum.  

The weekend will be spent focusing on the structure, shape and form of trees in their autumn glory. 

Andrea will guide participants in observing and capturing trees and intricate details of their bark, fruits and foliage, paying close attention to composition, colour and light.

On the second day, students will make the  most of the 'golden hour' with a pre-breakfast outdoor session,  photographing first light in the Gardens or in the Orangery, depending on the weather.

Between outdoor shoots, there will be plenty of warming drinks & nourishing seasonal meals for participants prepared by Killruddery Head Chef Niall O'Sullivan and his team using ingredients grown on the Killruddery Estate.

Please click on the link below for booking details:

https://killruddery.com/products/workshop-photography-with-andrea-jones

Andrea was delighted to be awarded a Silver-Gilt Medal and the People's Choice Award at this year's RHS Botanical Art & Photography Competition for her portfolio, 'Through a Window', held at the Saatchi Gallery, London and

the People's Choice award 

The exhibition is open until the 27th of July.

Andrea was honoured to be recently made an Ambassador for the Roberto Burle Marx Foundation. 

The aim of the Foundation is to promote, preserve and share the legacy of the renowned Brazilian landscape designer, artist and conservationist.

The first public engagement of the Foundation is through it's lead support of the exhibition, 'Brazil! Brazil! The Birth of Modernism' taking place at the Royal Academy, London from 28 January until 21 April 2025.

For any journalist enquiries for pictures by Andrea of Roberto Burle Marx gardens, please use the following link:

Roberto Burle Marx Gardens of Brazil

Password: rbmgardens

Please contact andrea@andreajones.co.uk for details on licensing

Andrea was delighted to present her A World of Gardens online talk to members of the historic City Gardens Club of New York City on the evening of 13th January.

Andrea was honoured to be a Finalist in this year's GMG Awards, Gordon Rae Garden Photographer of the Year 2024 held at the Savoy Hotel, London on Friday the 22nd of November.

Awards Finalists Link

Andrea was so pleased to return once more to Chaumont-sur-Loire in France again during this November 2024 to help on the judging panel for the latest enteries for the 2025 International Garden Festival.

'Since 1992, the International Garden Festival has been a laboratory for contemporary garden and landscape design worldwide'.

We are delighted that Andrea was awarded a Gold Medal and Best Portfolio Photography Exhibit in the 2024 RHS Botanical Art & Photography Competition for her exhibit, 'Gardens Illuminated' at the Saatchi Gallery, London. 

The exhibition is open to the public between the 14th June and 7th July.

Andrea was very pleased to have been interviewed about her career by Gillian Greenwood of Nikon Owners Magazine for it's latest spring issue.

The ten page article discussed Andrea's work from the beginning of her career to the present day. 

Please click here to view the article.

Andrea was delighted to return to France in November 2023 to help judge enteries for the 2024 International Garden Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire. 

'Since 1992, the International Garden Festival has been a laboratory for contemporary garden and landscape design worldwide'.  Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire

Andrea gave a zoom talk entitled 'The World of Gardens' to Royal Automobile Club members on the 31st of January 2024.

Andrea was delighted to be shortlisted as a finalist in the 'Spaces' category with her view of Les jardins suspendus de Marqueyssac, France at the prestigious Association of Photographers 38th AOP Photography Awards.  Click here to take a look.

Horticulture Magazine interviewed Andrea recently for their latest issue describing her long career and her varied life influences.

To take a look please click here

The postponed  2024 photography workshop and talk at Marchmont House in the Scottish Borders as part of the special Head Gardener's Weekend. 

During the  weekend Andrea was to present her Illustrated talk 'A World of Gardens' and lead an early bird Garden Photography Masterclass. She was to look at the wider garden views and close ups of the many plants in the gardens and conservatory at Marchmont House.

In 2025, a weekend workshop will be arranged and publicised. Please keep an eye on our website here and also the Marchmont House site for further updates.

Andrea's work and career featured in a live webinar broadcast to the worldwide Nikon Owners Club on the 7th of January 2023.  Introductions were provided by Gray Levett, Founder of Grays of Westminster, and Michael Eleftheriades of the Nikon Owner London Group.

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Members comments:

Andrea, thank you for your very inspirational presentation. It was perfect. Thank you. 

Ann C

Andrea. Fabulous presentation. Many Thanks. 

Kevin S

Wonderful presentation again, many thanks. 

Jonathan B

Thank you, beautiful gardens and presentation!

Wilco N

Andrea, thank you very much for you excellent photography and presentation. I very much enjoyed yesterday's Grays of Westminster & Nikon Owner New Year Evening. It was inspiring and very well delivered by Andrea.

Mike W

The evening was superb, I highly enjoyed it. Another inspiring Grays event.Many thanks as ever.

Lorraine M

Many thanks for your invitation to Friday's meeting. Andrea is not only an excellent photographer but a delightful and very modest lady. It all made for a splendid evening.

Paul S

Wonderful images in the misty morning and a really good presenter. I picked up on the apps for noise suppression too, which will be useful.

Nick F

Many thanks to you (Michael Eleftheriades NOC), Andrea and Grays for the World of Gardens presentation on Saturday. I have appreciated Andrea’s depiction of gardens in gardening magazines, her 2017 book ‘The Garden Photography Workshop and recently her RHS Photographic Competition category winning photograph of Madresfield Court, Worcestershire. I really enjoyed the presentation and it was good to see and hear her in person.

Ian D

Congratulations Andrea. Hugely inspiring talk - thank you so much! 

Gray Levett

Andrea was thrilled to hear she has won the Gardens Category of the 2022 RHS Photographic Competition. 

The winning photograph is called 'Illuminating the Past and Present'. 

It is a view from the encased window of Madresfield Court, a moated stately home in Worcestershire. The historic garden below had been recently redesigned by Tom Stuart-Smith.

See the RHS website for further information: www.rhs.org.uk/promotions/rhs-photo-competition/results/2022/gardens

Andrea recently had the pleasure of giving a Zoom talk, 'Garden Inspirations', to subscribers of Nikon Owner magazine from all around the world. www.nikonownermagazine.com

Andrea is delighted to have been asked to return as a judge for the prestigious Society of Garden Designers awards 2022. The awards celebrate the best in garden and landscape design, featuring the work of the UK's most talented designers. https://www.sgd.org.uk/events/awards/categories.aspx

Author Kathryn Bradley-Hole's beautiful new book champions green gardening and shows that there need be no loss of visual impact or creativity when taking environmental concerns into account. Andrea's has contibuted photographs to this thought provoking book, please click the link if you would like to find out more: https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847870097

In this book, the author, garden historian and designer Toby Musgrave breaks the world’s greatest gardens down into  elements, styles, features, and ornaments, which appeal to experts and amateurs alike. The case studies use many of Andrea's images to illustrate these wonderful gardens. Please follow this link to find out more: https://www.phaidon.com/store/gardens/the-garden-elements-and-styles-9781838660765/

This wonderful limited edition book includes twenty-four of Stuart-Smith’s gardens from around the world. Andrea is over the moon that he has chosen some of her images to illustrate this volume and was touched by this mention in the credits: 'This book would not be much without the photography. In the old days Andrew Lawson and Jerry Harpur were endlessly generous and creative collaborators, more recently Marianne Majerus and Andrea Jones have taken the most beautiful pictures here. For more information please click here: https://www.tomstuartsmith.co.uk/shop

Andrea had the priviledge to spend time photographing the magical 15th century Ferniehirst Castle in the Scottish borders. To see Andrea's work, or if you fancy an escape to the ancient Jed Valley, please take a look at their new website: https://www.ferniehirst.com/

Andrea was thrilled to be included in the top 5 finalists for the Gordon Rae Photographer of the Year at our industries main event in late-November ! 'For the photographer of a diverse portfolio of images that celebrate current standards of excellence in professional garden photography and stand out for their skill and brilliance.'

I was delighted to be the guest of Noel Kingsbury & Annie Guilfoyle's Garden Masterclass 'Thursday Garden Chat' on Zoom on the 18th Feb. I was asked to reveal my 'Desert Island Gardens'.

Watch the video at: https://www.gardenmasterclass.org/videos/andrea-jones-garden-photographer-her-desert-island-gardens

Recently Andrea completed a photography shoot for Country Life magazine's 29th July edition, guest edited by HRH, The Princess Royal on the cottage gardens at Rhuvaal Lighthouse on the north eastern tip of the Isle of Islay on Scotland's west coast. Read all about her dramatic trip by sea as she reveals all in an interview with Toby Keel of Country Life magazine.

Tamsin Westhorpe explores getting the best photographs from your garden with Andrea Jones an award-winning Garden Photographer.

This podcast comes to you from Candide Gardening, an app where gardeners find inspiration and knowledge, to find out more and listen to the podcast please click the link below:

http:// https://candide.com/GB/podcasts

We are delighted that this image of Andrea's will be on the cover of Country Life magazine in May. It shows the fabulous long borders in the Walled Garden at Carolside, Peebleshire, Scotland. The issue will be out on May 14th, 2019, look out for it on the shelves!

Andrea is delighted to have been appointed as a judge for the prestigious Society of Garden Designers awards, especially as she will be the first photographer to sit on the panel. The awards celebrate the best in garden and landscape design, featuring the work of the UK's most talented designers.

Andrea is delighted to be a judge for the RHS Photographic Competition for the second year in a row. 

We were really delighted that Andrea was the recipient of the Gordon Rae Photographer of the Year Award at The Garden Media Guild's 2018 Awards held at The Savoy in London on the 29th of November. A lovely way to end the year.

Andrea Spent a year photographing the incredible gardens at West Dean for a new book,  'At West Dean: The Creation of an Exemplary Garden' written by the garden's creators Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain. See the garden throughout the seasons as Jim and Sarah tell the amazing story of this special place.

Andrea's book, The Garden Source has been revised and updated to provide even more information and ideas to anyone who aspires to create wonderful gardens.

I had the great privilege of addressing the Irish Garden Plant Society last night.  The talk was called Garden Inspirations and was based on my book The Garden Source. I took the audience on a virtual global garden tour and featured the designs of dozens of gardens which I have enjoyed photographing over recent years,  in Ireland as well as further afield in Brazil, USA, Singapore, Denmark amongst many other countries. What a fantastic evening, thanks for having me!

Andrea has just completed another very successful working trip to Barbados ... the results will be posted in her Published Work in due course.

We were equally delighted that two of Andrea's new books, The Garden Photography Workshop  and Essential Pruning Techniques (both Timber Press) were featured in the English garden magazines recent Top 10 gardening Books for Christmas

We were really delighted that two of Andrea's new books were recently reviewed by Stephen Anderton in his Saturday Times list of Gardening Books of the Year. Making for Home (Pimpernel Press) and Essential Pruning Techniques (Timber Press)

Andrea was delighted to have two books entered for the Garden Media Guild Awards at the Savoy, London on the 23rd of November. The Garden Photography Workshop and Essential Pruning Techniques (by Tony Kirkham) both Timber Press were shortlisted finalists.

'Pruning makes even experienced gardeners nervous. Compare thoracic surgery: horrible, invasive and potentially fatal. For 44 years George Brown's book has been the bible on the subject, whether it's a regular pruning or once-in-a-lifetime rejuvenation. the book is now updated by Tony Kirkham. Kew's incomparably experienced tree man. Serious gardeners will come back to it again and again'.

Courtesy of Stephen Anderton, Saturday Times, 25th Nov 2017, Gardening Books of the Year.

With an initial introduction to Melbourne Hall Gardens through a commission from Conde Nast’s House & Garden magazine,  Andrea was asked by the owners, Lord and Lady Ralph Kerr to document the gardens throughout the seasons for a book project, due for publication in 2024. Some of the results of those subsequent photoshoots can be viewed on the www.melbournehallgardens.com   ( website design by Leon Harris of leon@builtbyleon.com ).

Andrea and the team at Garden Exposures also provide a private achive of garden photography for the Gardens so that garden planting and design progress can be monitored and enjoyed through the years.

Last Saturday's Scotsman Weekend Magazine had a question and answer article with author Professor Alan Tait, about his evocative book 'Making for Home, describing life in the Moffat Valley of the Scottish Borders illustrated by myself.

This week I visit the IGA Berlin to photograph some of the new gardens added to this huge international horticultural exhibition, set within an area of  250 acres. Originally created in 1987 to commemorate the city's 750th anniversary, the site features exhibits and gardens designed by artists and renowned garden designers from around the world. Quite a place!

Garvald Grange in East Lothian is a very special garden devoted to Bees! Great to see Julia Watsons' words with my pictures in the August edition of Country Life.

I'm very happy this feature on The Pig on the Beach and their head gardener Jo Macina, has been published in Country Homes and Interiors as it's in my home county. The Pig on the Beach is such a beautiful hotel, spa and restaurant and it's site, on the Dorset coast allows amazing views to the Isle of Wight and the English Channel. Well known for their extensive kitchen garden, the home grown vegetables and fruit supplies the kitchens and provides seasonal produce year round.

Peter Donegan chats with photographer Andrea Jones about her new book 'The Garden Photography Workshop'.

Thank you to the lovely folks at Succulents and More for the fantastic review of 'The Garden Photography workshop'!

Thank you to The Sunday Herald for the lovely review and feature on 'Making for Home'. The book is Alan Tait's memoir of his journey to the Moffat Valley, in the Scottish Borders, where he bought a remote farmhouse in the 1970s and since when he has overseen its restoration and renewal. Andrea photographed this unique, tranquil part of the world to bring Alan's story to life!

Thank you to The Reckless Gardener for the lovely review of 'Making for Home'. It's a wonderful blog, you can see more at www.reckless-gardener.co.uk.

Thank you to Leyla for the wonderful review on Amazon!

Very happy to see my image of Tom Stuart Smith's garden on the cover on the new book by James Hitchmough. Sowing Beauty is an excellent guide to designing a flowering meadow from seed.