Gardens Available to Visit

We have chosen an eclectic range of Cotswold-based gardens for you to enjoy. Often conducted by the owners or their Head Gardeners, the tours are informative, informal, and leisurely. Refreshments are usually on offer, along with our warm and welcoming tour guides. Make use of Ben’s knowledge by asking questions too. Click on a garden below to read through our detailed garden profiles which explain their history, layout and continued development. For booking, please see the Home or Itinerary pages.

Browse our Gardens

Click here to move to the Cerney House Gardens information and bookings page.

Cerney House Gardens

Cerney House Gardens, hidden in the Cotswolds, is a secret and romantic treasure that has been lovingly created since 1983 by the Angus family.

Click here to move to the Rodmarton Manor Gardens information and bookings page.

Rodmarton Manor

The grand house and gardens were designed by Ernest Barnsley, a follower of William Morris, from 1909 to 1929. The garden layout survives to this day.

Click here to move to the Daglingworth House Gardens information and bookings page.

Daglingworth House

The stunning gardens of Daglingworth House have been created by their talented owners, David and Etta Howard over the last 30 or so years.

Click here to move to the Sezincote House Gardens information and bookings page.

Sezincote House

With the most incredible, Mogul style mansion at its centre, Sezincote Gardens provide a sub-tropical feast for the eyes.

Click here to move to the Dean Manor Gardens information and bookings page.

Dean Manor

This six acre garden, originally designed by Arabella Lennox-Boyd, sits in the quaint hamlet of Dean. Old, stone walls house an abundant selection of climbing and rambling roses and clematis.

Click here to move to the Cedara House Gardens information and bookings page.

Cedar House Gardens

Since 1978 David and Sandra Burbidge have developed their six-acre garden and arboretum around some lovely mature trees, including a magnificent Cedar of Lebanon, after which their home is named.

Click here to move to the Hill Close Gardens information and bookings page.

Hill Close Gardens

These historic and unique ‘detached’ gardens were created in 1845 by Mr Edward Wilson when he divided up his land into garden plots to rent to tenants (predominantly shop owners) who had relative and newly acquired wealth.

A statue of a small girl in Rockcliffe gardens.

Rockcliffe Gardens

This quintessential Cotswold country garden has been perfectly designed and planted by its owner Emma Keswick, over 30 years.

Covering 8 acres, Rockcliffe has everything one could ask for in a large garden;

Click here to move to the Berkeley Castle Gardens information and bookings page.

Berkeley Castle Gardens

The eight acres of gardens have been developed by successive generations of the Berkeley family and the castle walls have been softened with borders and flowers.

Click here to move to the Upton Wold Gardens information and bookings page.

Upton Wold Gardens

The Bond family bought Upton Wold in 1973. Only a few old apple trees, an ancient Yew and the most incredible views greeted them.

Click here to move to the Brockworth Court Gardens information and bookings page.

Brockworth Court Gardens

An informal yet bold, tapestry-style garden complements this stunning Tudor mansion wonderfully. Dating from the early 16th Century, the manor was visited by Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Before that, it served as a monastery.

Click here to move to the Bourton House Gardens information and bookings page.

Bourton House Gardens

In 1983 the new owners, Richard and Monique Paice set about designing and building the perfect garden, from a neglected wilderness.

Click here to go to the Broughton Grange Gardens information and bookings page.

Broughton Grange Gardens

Designed by award-winning landscape designers in 2000, the fabulous gardens centre around a walled garden. These consist of three terraces containing bold topiary with luxuriant perennials wrapped around them.

The beautiful trees and shrubs of Batsford Arboretum in the Autumn.

Batsford Arboretum

1st Lord Redesdale planted his ‘wild garden’ in the 1890s, taking inspiration from his time spent in the Far East, notably China and Japan. His exclusive knowledge enabled him to plant botanically important collections of Japanese Maples, flowering Cherries, Mountain Ash, and Bamboo.

Click here to go to the Miserden gardens information page

Miserden Park Gardens

This timeless and elegant walled garden overlooks historic deer park and the Golden Valley below.

You feel an air of peace and tranquility as you wander through the topiary Yews and the grass steps, both designed by Edwin Lutyens.

The long, mixed borders are some of the grandest in England still in private ownership and are brimming with roses, shrubs, perennials, and bulbs.

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Go to the Painswick Rococo Gardens page

Painswick Rococo Gardens

Created in the 1740s as a fanciful pleasure garden by wealthy landowner Benjamin Hyett, Painswick Rococo Garden is the country’s last remaining Rococo garden.

Sadly it soon became overgrown and completely lost and forgotten about. It was only in the early 1980s that historians discovered a painting of the house and garden that they realized it was there! 

Packington & Maxstoke Gardens

Packington Hall Gardens are set in magnificent Capability Brown designed landscape, the gardens of Packington Hall were laid out from 1751. Maxstoke Castle Gardens form part of the splendid 14th-century castle, owned by the Fetherston-Dilke family for the last 400 years. The castle is moated and encompassed by a 5ft wall. Richly planted borders containing Delphiniums, Salvias, Exochorda, Penstemons, and Buddleia adorn the courtyard garden.

Statue in the garden of Kiftsgate Court

Kiftsgate Court Gardens

Heather Muir created these beautiful and romantic gardens in the 1920s with the philosophy of developing the garden organically and without any drawn plans, making for a more expressive, feminine feel to them. Two successive generations have added a variety of pods, planting and other features and have kept true to the original concept of ‘evolution rather than revolution’.

Westwell Manor Gardens

Once acclaimed as being the most beautiful gardens in England, the late Anthea Gibson created them in 1978 with her then Head Gardener and the moral support of her fine art dealer husband, Thomas. Since Anthea’s passing, her husband has worked tirelessly to ensure the gardens are kept up to her standards.

Claridges Barn & Chivel Farm image

Claridges Barn & Chivel Farm Gardens

Claridges Barn Gardens garden has been compartmentalized into ‘rooms’ with a pergola, several cedar glasshouses, and borders planted with an array of roses, shrubs, perennials and bulbs. Chivel Farm Gardens contains formal parterres of box were planted and mixed borders contain interesting and unusual perennials as well as rare trees and shrubs.