The Duchess of Northumberland has a strange hobby. In the gardens surrounding her family’s ancestral home at Alnwick Castle in northeast England, she grows poison. After an inspirational trip to the ...

The Alnwick Garden’s Young Gardeners have been given the chance to design and create their first commercial garden, which will be at the show home of the new Edward’s Birch development being built by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Percy in front of the Grand Cascade water garden at Alnwick Castle - Chris Watt Photography A 21st century pleasure garden ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. To enter the poison garden of Alnwick you must fetch a guide to unlock the black iron ...

There’s a giant new attraction at Alnwick Garden and it’s set to make you feel very small. A series of enormous sculptures are now dotted around the landscaped gardens next to Alnwick Castle . They ...

“Don’t touch,” says Bridget the guide, as we prepare to enter the locked gates of the Poison Garden. “Don’t smell.” Don’t worry: I had seen the skull and crossbones on the black wrought-iron gate, ...

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Northumberland Estates' plans to build a new garden centre in Alnwick have taken a step forward. Earlier this year the company, along with centre operator Blue Diamond, revealed plans for the site on ...

A group of visitors to The Alnwick Garden this summer will have more reason than most to keep their fingers crossed for good weather. The Northumberland attraction is opening its doors to naturists ...