THREE OF MICHAEL’S FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL GARDENS

Berchigranges, in Haute Vosges, eastern France, at 650-metres altitude, which shows the advantage of high rainfall.

La Louve, in Bonnieux, a small town in the Vaucluse area of Provence, is a series of garden rooms on a steep section overlooking the borrowed landscapes of the valley below. Caher Bridge Garden in the heart of the Burren on the wild west coast of Ireland, near Ballyvaughan in County Clare, blends into its surrounding landscape magnificently.