Our Gardens
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.
Read through our detailed garden profiles which explain their history, layout and continued development.
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. Many of the specimen trees he planted form the structure of today’s arboretum.
Berkeley Castle
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.
In the Victorian period the terrace was planted by the eminent designer Gertrude Jekyll and the garden has been filled with scented plants, especially roses.
Bourton House
In 1983 the new owners, Richard and Monique Paice set about designing and building the perfect garden, from a neglected wilderness.
With the then Head Gardener, Paul Williams, they introduced imaginative topiary, created water features from natural springs, planted exotics, and wide herbaceous borders.
Brockworth Court
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.
Brockworth Court Gardens contains many interesting features such as an original and natural fish pond with Monet Bridge, a kitchen garden, and a replica thatched Fijian house.
Broughton Grange
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. This beautifully frames the countryside beyond. In the walled garden, there are Mediterranean borders filled with warm colours, symmetrical vegetable plots, and ornamental fruit cages.
Cedar House
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.
Over the year the Burbidge family have created an arboretum containing many unusual trees and have a particularly fine Acer Palmatum collection.
Cerney House
Cerney House Gardens, hidden in the Cotswolds, is a secret and romantic treasure that has been lovingly created since 1983 by the Angus family. Lady Angus and her daughter Barbara focussed on the development of what is now the garden’s ‘jewel in the crown’, the walled garden. Planting this with roses.
Court House
A garden offering something for everyone! The White family have created a variety of garden rooms that have been individually planted.
Rich herbaceous borders take you on an inspirational journey and walk harmoniously alongside wildflower meadows. Look out for vast swathes of Snakehead Fritillaries.
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. With its beautiful herbaceous borders, grass garden, pergolas, walled garden, grotto and pools, wildflower meadow, woodland, and mirror canal, this place really has so much to see and savour in all seasons.
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. More formal gardens consist of gorgeous herbaceous borders interspersed with Yew buttresses, a water garden, wildflower meadows and an orchard.
Hill Close
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. These tenants were provided with gardens that featured high hedges for privacy, lawns and cultivated areas, a summer house and a peaceful environment.
Kiftsgate Court
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’.
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Miserden Park
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.
Oxleaze Farm
Charles and Chipps Mann moved into Oxleaze Farm in 1983, inheriting the bones of the garden which had been created by Charles’ mother. As their children got older. Chipps wanted to put her mark on the garden, dramatically cutting down on the amount of fruit and veg that had been routinely grown.
Packington Hall
Set in magnificent Capability Brown designed landscape, the gardens of Packington Hall were laid out from 1751. They include varied features from a decorative Japanese bridge (dating to 1765) to a Serpentine Lake, impressive and ancient trees, to mixed terrace borders. Whilst these elements are conserved and well managed, the owners have been keen to enhance and evolve their garden.
Painswick Rococo
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!
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. Designed as series of outdoor garden rooms, each has a unique and different character and feel. The range of plants used is equally diverse.
Sezincote House
With the most incredible, Mogul style mansion at its centre, Sezincote Gardens provide a sub-tropical feast for the eyes. Neglected during World War 2, the garden was restored in the 1960s by Sir Cyril and Lady Kleinwort, with the help of consultant Graham Stuart Thomas.
Sudeley Castle
With the magnificent castle as an impressive backdrop, the 10 award-winning gardens envelop the castle harmoniously. Whilst the original Ralph Boteler designed the gardens, dating back to the 15th Century, no longer survive, the gardens are ever evolving and still compliment the castle and its 1000 years of history.
Upton Wold
The Bond family bought Upton Wold in 1973 when no garden even existed. Only a few old apple trees, an ancient Yew and the most incredible views greeted them.
With their enthusiasm, vision and the help of the renowned landscape architects, Hal Moggeride and Brenda Colvin, a series of Yew hedges were laid out, borders created, terraces built, greenhouses erected and trees and shrubs planted.
Westwell Manor
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.
Wortley House
This wonderfully diverse 20-acre garden was developed by Simon and Jessica Dickinson over the last 45 Years. The garden was originally laid out by Jessica’s Mother.
Deep borders are packed with a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, containing many scented roses and Philadelphus.