Tresco is the second largest Scilly Island. It is just two miles long and the only one privately owned.
It’s thirty miles off the Cornish coast so many plants flourish here that will struggle on the mainland.
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Monet’s Garden at Giverny
You are supposed to visit Giverny in the spring- the wisteria and waterlilies are at their best then. But given the chance to visit in July I jumped at it.
Claude Monet settled there in 1883 with his wife and eight children and lived there until his death in 1926.