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Theres £25 and 10 minutes of our lives we'll never see again. Have all these people really been to the same place we did!? It was awful! Tiny, smelly,(my 4 year old smelt like somebody had died) boring and hugely expensive. It took us less than 15 minutes to walk round the greenhouse, (thats nearly £2 a minute) and hated every second. Don't waste your time or money.

i went last year with my mum, dad and nanna, unfortunatily we couldn't manage the steep slopping parts due to dad still recovering from a 5% chance of living heart op but the bit's we did see where amazing, we went to the Eden Centre the day before but i have to say i enjoyed Heligan far more!
i ended up taking just over 200 pic's!
i'm new to this site and haven't made a blog about it but it was one of my fave experiances!
now i'm wishing i got the DVD like Tammielee!

There's a leaflet available by the £1.50 honesty box. Here's some facts lifted from it:

The Mill Garden is the private garden of hte late Arthur Measures.

This peaceful garden stands in a place which, for many centuries was one of hustle and business. The whole of the traffic from the town going South and East crossed it on its way to the old bridge; earlier still to the ford. For hundreds of years traffic to and from the Castle Corn Mill came to it. At times when the Castle building work was in progress, it was little better than a stone mason's yard.

Many famous people must have come this way - all the Earls of Warwick, some of our kings and queens, probably William Shakespeare and common folk too from the town and the surrounding countryside.

Times of opening: 9am to 6pm, April 1st - October 31st. (We went on a sunny Sunday in January - I suppose we must have been lucky to find it open). Adults £1.50, young children with adults free, no dogs.

£134,880 has been raised for national and local charities between 1974 and 2006. Garden proceeds will go towards keeping The Mill Gardens open to the public, and to support National Gardens Scheme and 35 other charities.

According to the Warwick Chamber of Trade web site:
"Close to the town centre, and behind the Tourist Information Centre, is the unexpected haven of the Pageant Garden.
In this public open space are held civic garden parties; it forms the backdrop for wedding photographs and the huge chestnut trees cast a welcome shade to passers by."

It was pretty uninspiring on our visit in January -- little of the planting was in at an attractive stage, and the admittedly impressive trees were bare. I'm sure it's a lot more pleasant in season.

Shrewsbury Flower Show 2010 show dates 13th & 14th August

The Botanical Gardens in Oxford are well worth a visit they are the oldest Botanical Gardens and the there is a wide variety of different plants . The best times to visit are the Spring and the Summer but to visit althrough the year there is always some thing new to see as the bedding and the themed gardens are changed on a regular bases and if you take a camera the are lots of photo opportunities