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It became a museum in 1911; many years later, in the early 1980s, its garden was opened to the public as a Tudor garden.

It became a museum in 1911; many years later, in the early 1980s, its garden was opened to the public as a Tudor garden.

Wakehurst Place, built in 1590, is a country estate with substantial ornamental gardens and tree collections.

This pretty garden lies on the corner of Park Road and York Road.

Forcing plants and flowers in the kitchen garden reached its zenith in the 19th century, offering hosts considerable scope for impressing their guests.

The sloping gardens below the Belsfield Hotel provide the viewpoint for this Windermere scene.

These gardens are at the rear of Ayscoughfee Hall, which is now in the process of being restored.

Stowe is of European importance in the history of landscape gardening.

Moving north of the Checker and across Abbey Close and into Abbey Gardens, we reach the site of the abbey church, which was about 300 feet long, and the cloisters and monastic buildings.

On his return as he dismounted his old horse collapsed and died, and is buried in the garden.

Shown here, just past the Congregational Church, is the lower part of the ­cultivated gardens of the Convalescent Hospital.

Looking from the Hall (or the Palace Avenue Theatre) through the gardens, we can see Norton's and Welton's shoe shops.

Beach shops now fill the front garden, and there is a car park in the café garden.

Princes Street and the Scott Monument from the gardens.

Here we see the priory ruins viewed from the south as in the view of 1885; but by the time of this photograph, Margaret, later first Lady Gisborough, along with her head gardener, Kew-trained

This view shows the Victorian mansion and one of the more conventional parts of its fasci- nating gardens.

This view looks west along the main thoroughfare of the New Town, with Prince's Street Gardens on the left.

The 'jungle' bridges were to divert youngsters away from the formal flower gardens - and to give the adults a rest.

The south front of St Donat's overlooks the Bristol Channel, and a series of terraced gardens lead down to the shore.

Note the shelter made from an old boat in the front garden.

This view of the church is taken from South Church Street, probably within the garden of what is now the house 'Braeside'.

Here, bumpers of sulphuric and chalybeate water were dispensed from seven o'clock in the morning, after which a constitutional in the Valley Gardens was highly recommended.

Here we see the old moat, which was landscaped and, as shown here, included an elaborate enclosed formal rose garden.

Under this neatly-trimmed ivy and bushes is the entrance lodge to Sandringham House and gardens, which were subsequently opened to the public in the early 1900s.