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Leading you Down the Garden Path at Hidcote Manor Garden!

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…  influential 20th-century gardens. He began work in 1907, becoming interested in making a garden out of the fields surrounding the house.
The garden was developed in the fashionable Arts & Crafts style: a series of outdoor ‘rooms’ offering surprises   … Read more

Hidcote Manor Garden in the Cotswolds

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…  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   … Read more