Waterperry Gardens

This fast, simple and easy-to-use website succeeds in its aim to offer a taste of the gardens, which are just off the A40 in Oxfordshire, and well worth a stop-off to or from London. A permanent menu bar makes navigation a cinch, and a delicate rose-pink background lends an elegant air to the proceedings.

The gardens are introduced with some most enticing prose which trumpets the magical beauty of the herbaceous borders, made famous by Beatrix Havergal's school of gardening in the 1930s. There's also a romantic-sounding river walk and formal medieval knot garden, and special treasures for each season are highlighted, which for spring included the pear orchard in blossom and the collection of alpine saxifrages. Each summer the gardens host the well-known Art in Action festival in July, which is a flurry of art, craft, gardening and musical activity and a must for anyone interested in the arts or rural crafts.

There is the usual information about plant sales and tearooms which in this case appear to be well above the usual standard.