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| Easton Walled Gardens lie just off the A1 near Colsterworth in Lincolnshire. Easton Hall was demolished in 1951. The revival of its gardens began in 2001. |
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| The original estate gardens can be traced back four hundred years. |
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| A yew tree tunnel . . . |
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| . . . leads to this wrought iron gate, beyond which runs the noisy A1 motor route, the only blight on a landscape which US President Franklin D Roosevelt called 'A dream of Nirvana . . . almost too good to be true.' He was spending part of his honeymoon here with his bride, Eleanor. |
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| Rose is a rose . . . |
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| . . . is a rose is a rose . . . |
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| . . . except when it's a dahlia. We found these dahlias in the cut flower garden, also known as the pickery. |
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| The flowers attracted many butterflies, including the red admiral and the small tortoiseshell . . . |
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| . . . while other wildlife we encountered was rather more unusual . . . |
