I am happy to be able to say I have visited the actual Versailles -- now I want to take the kids to the "Versailles of the North," an amazing modern garden built by the Duchess of Northumberland on her estate, which is also the home of the castle used in the Harry Potter movies. The place sounds ridiculously over-the-top and apparently kids love it. I'll just have to watch them like a hawk around the Poison Garden because if there's a way to ingest something there, I'm sure one of them would.(Via the always fabulous Lux Lotus.)
I just read The Poison Diaries, which features this very garden and is co-authored by the duchess. The book itself is dreadful; don't go there. But if you come across The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling, also by Maryrose Wood, it's a goodie.
Posted by: Nathalie | February 10, 2012 at 09:44 PM
so intriguing!
Posted by: Steph | February 14, 2012 at 04:49 PM