This is the tale of a duchess who set out to create a fabulous public garden in a historic English ruin. The story of Alnwick Garden -- with its cascading waterfalls and lush plantings -- has all the ...

The Duchess of Northumberland has a strange hobby. In the gardens surrounding her family’s ancestral home at Alnwick Castle in northeast England, she grows poison. After an inspirational trip to the ...

Families are being invited to take part in a week of magical adventures at The Alnwick Garden and Lilidorei this February half-term.

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. To enter the poison garden of Alnwick you must fetch a guide to unlock the black iron ...

The Alnwick Garden’s Young Gardeners have been given the chance to design and create their first commercial garden, which will be at the show home of the new Edward’s Birch development being built by ...

"The criticism I've had is just massive," said the Duchess of Northumberland, as she led a visitor through the Bamboo Labyrinth of Alnwick Garden. "It's really staggering the way that Britain views ...

Several articles and informational memes label a portion of the Alnwick Garden in Northumbria, U.K., as "the most deadly garden in the world." Indeed, this is a real place fittingly named the "Poison ...

“Don’t touch,” says Bridget the guide, as we prepare to enter the locked gates of the Poison Garden. “Don’t smell.” Don’t worry: I had seen the skull and crossbones on the black wrought-iron gate, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Percy in front of the Grand Cascade water garden at Alnwick Castle - Chris Watt Photography A 21st century pleasure garden ...