Garden Sheds and Industrial Buildings Relegate your tools to the garden shed and go exploring

Relegate your tools to the garden shed and go exploring

17:02:20 3rd February 2010

Leave your tools in the garden shed this weekend and spend it discovering Britain's outdoor havens and retreats.

The Times has listed its top ten garden havens in the UK, ranging from snowdrop gardens, fountains, ornamental walled spaces and glasshouses housing Australasian tree ferns.

Castle Drogo in Devon, with spectacular views of Dartmoor, has secluded flower gardens, spring-flowering shrubs and a checkerboard rose garden, reports the news provider.

Meanwhile, Angelsey's Plas Cadnant presents visitors with an "energetic redevelopment of a 19th century garden".

It has every "woodland flowering tree and shrub you could name, sheets of primulas, long parallel herbaceous borders, and a little picturesque river valley you will never forget," said the Times.

Meanwhile, television presenter Alan Titchmarsh told the Telegraph that Britons need to rediscover the art of gardening, as technology has "left us afraid of the earth". ADNFCR-2655-ID-19596080-ADNFCR

Robin Antill+

garden sheds in 1979.

31 years experience.

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