Plants are being returned to Edinburgh’s historic glasshouses after a four-year restoration, reports Ian Hodgson

The first five of 49 saplings grown from the illegally felled Sycamore Gap tree have been planted as part of National Tree Week. It’s hoped the ‘Trees of Hope’, which have been gifted to community pro

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Gracing the banks of the River Thames, this exquisite gem survived the Civil War thanks to a shrewd political operator, and is one of the finest Stuart houses in the country

The garden of Penns in the Rocks, near Tunbridge Wells, East Sussex The home of Hugh and Frances Gibson

The finest bay trees I know are the legendary 150-year-old specimens that line the gracious balustraded South Terrace at Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland. The trees were already at least 50 years old