Greenhouse gifts and vegetable prints

Greenhouse gifts for the person at the bench

For the person who lives at the potting bench, Behind the Glass is the piece: tomatoes and terracotta pots in pale light over a dark workbench. Greenhouse in the Snow is the same glasshouse in winter, lit from inside at dusk, and The Potting Shed is the bench itself, with tools on nails and seed trays. Each comes on a mug for the shed as well as on the wall formats. If the greenhouse sits on an allotment, the allotment gifts page has the rest of the plot.

Vegetable prints from the kitchen garden

The kitchen garden series takes one crop at a time, painted at the moment it’s ready: the truss that has finally turned red, the beans hanging long enough to pick. They suit a kitchen better than a flower print, because they show what the room is for.

• Tomatoes on the Vine. Trusses of ripe red and orange tomatoes hanging in a greenhouse.
• Beetroot in the Trug. A wooden trug of freshly pulled beetroot on a potting bench.
• Runner Beans. Scarlet runner bean flowers and long green pods hanging from bamboo canes.
• Rhubarb and the Forcer. Pink rhubarb stems and large leaves beside an old terracotta forcing pot.
• Broad Beans. Broad bean plants with black and white flowers and fat pods, some split open.
• Lettuces in the Cold Frame. Rows of green and red lettuces in a wooden cold frame with the lid propped open.
• Courgette Flowers. A courgette plant with large yellow flowers and green courgettes.
• Radishes and Leeks. A bunch of pink radishes and leeks on a weathered wooden table outdoors.
• Onions Drying. Harvested onions with dry tops laid on a wooden rack in the sun.
• Squash Harvest. Pumpkins and winter squashes piled by a shed door in autumn.
• Garlic Plait. A plait of dried garlic hanging on a shed wall beside a bunch of dried herbs.
• Strawberry Pots. Ripe strawberries and white flowers tumbling from terracotta pots on a sunny step.

Pairs and sets for a kitchen wall

Two or three vegetable prints in the same size and frame read as a set. Tomatoes on the Vine with Runner Beans gives red against green; Beetroot in the Trug with Radishes and Leeks keeps to pinks and purples. The size guide shows how far apart to hang them, and the vegetable planting calendar says when each crop goes in.

Choose for the room

A greenhouse image can sit naturally in a kitchen, dining space or hallway. Keep the finished print indoors and away from splashes, steam and long spells of direct sunlight. The subject doesn’t make it suitable for hanging inside a damp greenhouse.

Your greenhouse has its own character

Photograph from the doorway or choose a clear section of the bench. Keep the original file and check for reflections in the glass. Our garden photography guide has more ideas, or make a personal print from your own photograph.