Garden

Allotments

If you want to be green - get an allotment.

• Great food - grow the varieties that taste great. (Commercial farmers grow for transport, for looks, for ability to ripen all at the time. Taste is poor 4th).
• No food miles.
• Organic (if you like).
• Ultra fresh.
• Save money. Allotments cost pennies a week.
• Kudos with your friends (because unless you are a big family, you'll have plenty to spare).

No hard work :-

Westonbirt Arboretum

For techies - the National Tree Collection. For the rest of us, it's a fantastic huge park with amazing trees. Great for walks and picnics.

The site below really undersells it.

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/westonbirt

Sudeley Castle

www.sudeleycastle.co.uk

St Augustines Farm

www.staugustinesfarm.co.uk

Westbury Court Gardens

This is a gem just a few miles outside Gloucester - the LEADING example in the UK of a "canal garden".

If you like Gardens, go see.

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-westbu...

Painswick Rococo Garden

www.rococogarden.co.uk

http://www.englishwineproducers.com/ukva.htm#swva

http://www.orchard-group.uklinux.net/glos/index.html