Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Private paradise

Which of us who has walked around the ponds on Hampstead Heath in north London has not paused to gaze across the reeds and the weeping willows and wish ourselves the owner of one of the homes on the other side? The position of the houses is enviable, with private access to

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