And on to RHS Hyde Hall
So after the upheaval of Beth Chatto's garden, would Hyde Hall be the disappointment instead? I am a westerly and northerly living person. London is familiar territory but outside the city I feel at home in Devon and Wales and the North West of England. East is a bit alien to me. I have been to Rosemoor in Devon a number of times and to Harlow Carr in Yorkshire. I liked Harlow Carr, loved parts of Rosemoor, and made a rushed and disappointing trip to Wisley . I don't know whether the disappointment was a result of the rush and I won't find out until I have the opportunity to go again. So Hyde Hall was off my patch. I knew very little about it. I had no real expectations. I remembered something about the garden specialising in plants for drier conditions and I thought Matthew Wilson had been curator of the garden in the early 2000s but that was about it . Both of those things made me inclined to be interested in it but...