I’ve posted photos of our visit to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland before. Adjacent to the Castle is Alnwick Garden, a formal garden with a cascading fountain. Also in the Garden there is a fantastic Treehouse and a Poison Garden, safely secured behind locked gates. When we were there there a very long queue to go into the Poison Garden, so we left that for another day and went to Treehouse.

It’s an enormous structure made from sustainably sourced cedar, redwood and pine, extending high up into the trees.

There are wobbly walkways:


and a restaurant:

For more Saturday Snapshots see Alyce’s blog At Home With Books.