JemmaPage published This Mapperley couple's garden has been named the best in the UK

What was once an overgrown garden has been transformed into an Italian utopia over the past four decades by a Nottingham couple. Michael Blood and his partner Malcolm Bescoby have spent almost 40 years planting climbers, begonias and tree ferns to renovate their 20m x 9m garden into an Italianate paradise. The couple's creation, located at the back of their Mapperley Park home, has now been named as the best in the UK in the Daily Mail's National Garden Competition. The duo, who bought the...