Couple's stunning suburban garden in industrial heartland springs into life

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10 May 2024 at 3:34 am

Stunning pictures show a couple’s spectacular ‘four seasons’ garden bursting with spring colours – hidden in the industrial heartland of the Black Country. Tony Newton, 74, and wife Marie, 76, have devoted 42 years and more than £15,000 transforming their ordinary suburban garden into an idyllic oasis. Their garden in Walsall, West Mids., features more than 3,000 plants and flowers, including 450 azalea, 120 Japanese maples, 15 juniper blue stars. Locals have nicknamed the stunning garden ‘four seasons’ after the couple deliberately planted different flowers to bloom all year round. The green-fingered couple spend up to eight hours every day maintaining the quarter-of-an-acre plot which attracts visitors from around the world.

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