The English Garden

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What is it that makes a garden an ‘English’ garden – in the atmospheric sense of the word, rather than the geographical? For in West Sussex for romantic and fragrant roses galore. For others, it’s artfully masterminded herbaceous borders. You’d be hard pushed to better those at in East Sussex, in Buckinghamshire or in the Cotswolds. Walled gardens conjure the English garden feel in an instant, and the one at in North Wales, undergoing a thoughtful restoration, is a lovely example. What about a maze? is spectacular, framed by a golden laburnum tunnel.

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