This month’s special feature has been a stroll in the park…literally.Water garden at Botanico Gardens in Puerto de la Cruz

With watches poised to move to British Summer Time, I’ve been checking out nature’s offerings in what some believe to be the site of the Greek mythological Garden of Hesperides – this beautiful island of Tenerife.

I have, at various times over the past two weeks, found myself doing a passable impression of Alice in a jungle Wonderland amongst the Giant Strelitzias, towering palms and Triffid-like branches of the Australian Banyan Tree in the Botanical Gardens in Puerto de la Cruz; been reduced to a smirking idiot at the antics of ducklings who’ve clearly been raised on cute sandwiches in the beautiful water gardens of Risco Bello and played the endlessly amusing game of ‘trick the waiter’ in the bohemian setting of café Chocolaté in Parque Los Lavaderos in El Sauzal.

Enjoy the sensuousness of spring in my report on the best of Tenerife’s gardens in the April issue of Living Tenerife.