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UK Gardens

Re Collette's list of northern gardens: Fingers faster than brain -
again - I wiped your message about 'northern' (and Welsh) gardens
before being sure I'd made a note of the ones I don't know. Was it
DOLWEN you said was going to close at the end of Sept? It certainly
sounds interesting from the Yellow Book account. 

And to echo her idea that you're better out of London than in,
certainly for gardens and books, whether you go north (and you can go
a lot further north than Collette's selection and still find
fascinating 'Mediterannean' style gardens - as far as S.W. Scotland
[Logan Botanic Garden, nr Stranraer] or even as far as the Highlands
[Inverewe, north of Ullapool]) or south, to Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
(where there are too many to mention). As far as books are concerned,
S.W. Scotland has some v. good secondhand bookshops (much the best
sort) - and if you're following Collette's suggestion and wandering
around the Welsh/English borders then of course you've got 'The Book
Town,' Hay on Wye, comfortably within reach: which has something over
30 bookshops and 100s of 1000s of books on every subject under the
sun. (The second UK 'Book Town,' recently nominated - so it gets EEC
cash to help it -, is Wigtown in - yep, you guessed - S.W. Scotland.)

But the visit had better be soon: sun's starting to shine,
temperature's creeping up - who knows, we may be about to have a
(belated and abbreviated) summer, at last...
Tim Longville
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