Article: Saying it with flowers; Outdoors: John Price gave a shamelessly romantic designer garden to his partner and created a perfect love nest, says Pattie Barron.

Byline: PATTIE BARRON

THE ultimate Valentine's Day present isn't a bouquet of flowers or even a diamond ring, but a garden; heartshaped, naturally, and reached via an 18th century iron kissing gate. John Price created the Valentine Garden for his partner, Carolyn Hubble, carving twin heartshaped beds within a heart-shaped brick courtyard, but this is nothing less than you would expect to find in a large plot that has to be the most romantic in the land.

Carolyn Hubble has made 11 interlinking gardens from the paddock adjoining her house in Shropshire, and each one of them is a little perfumed paradise, filled with plants, statues and seats in sheltered ...

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