Clifton Nurseries, a popular gardening center in London, brings calm to fashionable Little Venice, just north of London's Notting Hill. Founded in 1851, this 1.5-acre oasis has belonged to Lord Jacob Rothschild since the 1970s and attracts local celebrity regulars Jude Law and Kate Moss.
Clifton's line of latticework seats and benches is available in a range of timbers — notably oak and responsibly sourced teak and iroko — and can be customized and shipped to order.
While you're there, grab a bite to eat at Carole Bamford's Daylesford Organic Café, which occupies a former conservatory within the nursery. If you see a cat prowling among the shrubs, that would be Beebop, the feline belonging to Ringo Starr's daughter, who lives next door. "He keeps the mice on their toes," says nursery manager Guy Pullen.
5A Clifton Villas; 011-44-20-7289-6851; clifton.co.uk.
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