At Purelands Japanese garden near Newark you will see a whole lot of beautiful and extraordinary looking plants - architectural shapes, cloud-like foliage and elegantly arching stems.
Read MoreI visited a Japanese garden near my home in the East Midlands about 10 years ago and a recent article in the Daily Mail prompted me to make a return trip. I was not disappointed.
Read MoreLondon is full of surprises but it’s not everyday you stumble across something that blows you away. Last Sunday, on a pleasant, if not particularly eventful, walk along the South Bank from Rotherhithe, there was that something. Gardens…..floating on the rushing wet-sand-coloured water of Old Father Thames, just a stone’s throw from Tower Bridge.
Read MoreThe weekend of the 7th & 8th June was the Festival Weekend of the National Gardens Scheme (NGS) when hundreds of private gardens around the country opened their gates to the public. The opportunity to take a relaxed stroll around nine gardens open in one nearby Lincolnshire village was too much to resist and turned out to be an enjoyable way to spend a sunny afternoon.
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