Readers' tips: your favourite historic UK gardens

Readers' tips: your favourite historic UK gardens

… Inigo Jones gateway are just some of the treasures hidden among the specimen trees and latticework of pathways in this early example of English landscape gardening. Chiswick W4, 020-8742 3905, chgt.org.uk, gardens free, Chiswick House, £5.70/£3.40 …
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Diary of a garden designer: a North American jaunt

Boston is an amazing place with lots of history (much of it anti-British, what with the Tea Party, revolution and all that). While the family have a rest in the public garden (it's back up to 40C with a whopping thunderstorm on the way), I inspect the …
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Britain in summer: the best beaches, gardens and parks

Rent a deckchair (£1.50 per hour, £7 per day) in St James's Park (April to October) is just one of those lovely London things: even better with a picnic from Fortnum & Mason (www.fortnumandmason.com) or M&S over the road next to Green Park tube station.
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