Top 10 most beautiful parks compiled by Rae Spencer-Jones for the Daily Telgraph because 1001 gardens is probably too much visiting. If you are determined to try buy the book first.
- Royal Botanic Garden Kew has a tropical plant festival in the glasshouse until March 2010
- Virginia Water – Saville garden and Valley garden have a varied and exotic woodland, landscape and garden to visit.
- Hylands Park Essex has a wide variety of interesting flora, fauna. There is also a large variety of mature trees including oak, ash, hornbeam, and field maple, plus an additional 25,000 new trees.
- Clumber Country Park Nottinhamshire is ideal for long walks or cycling so you need to be fit.
- Talkin Tarn Cumbria nestles in a 165 acre site, containing a glacial tarn surrounded by mature woodland and gentle meadows
- Coed y Brenin Gwynedd is Forestry commission land with lots of bike tracks.
- Healey Dell Nature Reserve Lancashire sits in a picturesque part of the Spodden Valley on the outskirts of Rochdale. It is rich in wildlife, with a fascinating archaeological history
- Stanwick Lakes Northampton is a unique countryside attraction in the heart of the Nene Valley very good for wild life.
- Normanby Hall Museum and Country Park Lincolnshire with a walled garden, house and farming museum to complement the Park
- Vogrie Country Park Edinburgh has 250 acres of natural trails, a walled garden and ponds. The 19th-century landscape includes trees brought to Scotland by plant collector George Forrest. Great for walking.
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