Growing passion helped me plot an oasis

PROUD pensioner John Massey shows off one of the finest private gardens in Britain - in the middle of an industrial heartland.

- By Adam Dutton

John, 76, has spent 27 years transforming a patch outside his bungalow which now bursts with glorious summer colour, featuring 20,000 different types of plants, trees and shrubs over 10 acres in the Black Country. The four-tim