Looking down to the Broad Walk from Battlestone Hill. The Rhododendrons were beautiful, my husband liked them so much he wanted to take one home. So we bought a dwarf rhododendron - yakushimanum 'Grumpy', a pieris 'Flaming Silver', some ericaceous compost and two large pots to take home with us, we also bought a few smaller plants.

A rock garden? - it looks more like a minature mountain. I was so busy trying to read the names of the plants that I lost my footing and nearly fell into them.

The laboratory looks a bit dreary, but it was April and it had been chucking it down for about a week before we arrived, then the sun came out. The ornamental grass garden near the restaurant was flooded, it looked more like a small lake with little grassy islands in it.

The Trial Gardens are otherwise known as Portsmouth Field which covers 4 acres in it's own right, this is where the RHS do most of their trials on the flowers and vegetables.

The Walled Garden. The scent of the wallflowers was almost overpowering in the walled garden. This is a nice sheltered place for the flowers to grow.