Hidcote. Sissinghurst. Kew Gardens. Wakehurst. These are the names of famous English gardens I’ve been reading and hearing about for a very long time. My dream of visiting them finally came true last ...

The first planting that I saw on a recent trip to Hidcote Manor Garden was a big block of pink begonias. Pink begonias! Not what most of us associate with this iconic English garden - which, along ...

Today’s gardeners and designers throw around the term ‘garden room’ but you don’t know garden rooms until you’ve seen Hidcote Manor. This National Trust garden was created by Lawrence Johnston when he ...

More than 100,000 visitors pass through the gates of Hidcote Manor each year because, a century after it was begun, it has become one of the most famous and influential gardens in the world. The ...

I’m sitting on a bench in the Hidcote Manor Garden in Chipping Campden, England, on the last day of a ramble through the Cotswolds with my husband and two other couples. We’ve all been friends for ...

Summer sees the gardens of the Cotswolds burst into a riot of colour, making this region – with its grand houses, quaint market towns and honey-coloured villages – the perfect place for a visit. On ...

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Gentle hills dotted with sheep and ancient villages set beside flowing streams: Scenes such as these attracted William Morris and other members of the Arts and Crafts movement to the Cotswolds in the ...

Ants believed to have a "kamikaze attraction" to electricity have been discovered in one of England's finest National Trust gardens. Colonies of Lasius neglectus, the so-called Asian super ant, have ...

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