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
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.
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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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.
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 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.