Hidcote Manor Garden in the Cotswolds
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Hidcote Manor Garden is a landscape garden located on the outskirts of the village of Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England and owned by the National Trust.
Created by American-born horticulturalist Major Lawrence Johnston, it is often described as one of England's great "Arts and Crafts" gardens with its collection of rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders.
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Johnston's mother, Gertrude Winthrop, purchased the Hidcote Manor Estate in 1907. The estate was located within a part of England with strong connections to the then-burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement.
Johnston soon became interested in turning the fields around the estate into a garden. By 1910 Johnston had begun to lay out the key features of the garden and by the 1920s Johnston had twelve full-time gardeners working for him.
The garden was acquired by the National Trust in 1947.
Johnston's influences in creating his garden include such luminaries as Alfred Parsons, Gertrude Jekyll, and others. In 2007 a garden designed by Chris Beardshaw that drew its inspiration from Johnson's Hicote was constructed at the Chelsea Flower Show.
The garden takes the form of a series of "rooms" of various characters created by the creative use of hedges and walls. These rooms are linked together, and some by imaginative vistas and furnished with topiaries. Some have ponds and fountains, and all are planted with flowers in bedding schemes. They surround the Tudor manor house, and there are numerous outhouses and a kitchen garden. The property is close to Kiftsgate Court Gardens, which is built on the very edge of the Cotswolds escarpment.
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Lovely place – I’d like to live there too.
Is it a small chapel??
Lovely picture lovely colours!
I like all the colours here. It looks very French with those blues, lavender, sunshine and bell tower.
Superb place, lovely shot.
Amazing blue sky. You must have visited on a gorgeous day.
Love blue flowers and the sun and the shadow and the buikdings so beautiful
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Just beautiful!
Beautiful! What great colours!
Lovely place..
What a beautiful photo on a beautiful day. You did well to find a day like that in Britain this summer!
How wonderful! I love it!
What a wonderful place & picture !
a place I’ve always wanted to go…your pic does not disappoint.!
nice :)
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what a beautiful blue sky, something we’ve rarely had when we visit Hidcote. We go there several times a year, & never tire of it’s seasonal displays.
glorious colours!
Fascinate! I can image me there!
A storybook scene !!!
Hidcote Manor is high on my list of places to visit, it’s very well-known. And your pictures do it justice too, they’re gorgeous
thanks for sharing this beautiful place..picture perfect!
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love the look of this place
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Wonderful shot Ugardener my friend!
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A beautiful done with taste and savoir faire.
Beautiful place, colors are great.
I like the strong colours in this shot. A perfect summer’s day in a lovely location.
This one is even better – excellent stuff.
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How colourful that is – we have had total cloud cover since Sunday and are forgetting what a blue sky looks like – thanks for reminding me
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Perfection!
Stunning colors!!
Excellent composition!!
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Lovely shot of Hidcote,I was there not long ago.
What a marvel, so different from the gardens we see in France, really lovely Manor too, sky was great too that day
This shot is framed so beautifully – all natural! Love it.
Really a wonderful shot!!
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Great saturated colours. Lovely
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That blue – almost mediteranean
perfectly delightful
An excellent representation of Hidcote Manor. I haven’t been there for a few years, seeing this makes me want to visit again.
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beautiful capture,lovely flowers!
Very Beautiful!
what a beautiful place and so well captured, lovely colours
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What a wonderful garden, beautifully captured. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely place, beautiful photo. I love the blue flowers.
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That church in the background is stunning!
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have to live like this sometime!!