Thank you. We changed the url from http://www.pickchur.com/2013/02/53-years-old-sealed-bottle-g... and the title from "53 years old Sealed Bottle Garden was last watered in 1972".

Thanks for the correction. That was the source the blogspam site cited (another blogspam site it seems).

it is indeed originally from the daily fail. that's their watermark bottom left.

The Daily Mail, and others just picked this up too. It was first covered in a Q&A style gardening radio show touring the UK.

You can hear David asking at 35:20 in the BBC Radio 4 program Gardeners Question Time first broadcasted Friday 18 January 2013.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pw5sd

The original copy text is under all these 10 orginal photographs taken by Phil Yeomans/BNPS published 21 Jan 2013: http://bnps.photoshelter.com/gallery/52-year-old-sealed-gard...

There is also a close up of the seal: http://bnps.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/52-year-old-seale...