Felicity Lloyd

The gardens of Ninfa

The ruins at Ninfa provide an incomparable structure for the gardener’s hidden artifice

issue 23 July 2016

I’ve just been given a personal tour of Ninfa by Monty Don. True, I had to share the thinking woman’s TV gardener with a number of others, but I’m convinced his attention was focused solely on me.

The occasion was a visit to three outstanding gardens outside Rome — Ninfa, Villa d’Este and Landriana — to celebrate a quarter-century of Gardeners’ World magazine in the company of its editor, Lucy Hall.

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