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Hidcote Manor Garden tel: 01386-438333 Area: Gloucestershire |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hidcote -- email: hidcote {at} nationaltrust.org.uk www.gloucestershiregardens.org/map.php |
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Hidcote Manor Garden |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||
19 Mar - 26 Jun, 10 - 6, Sat - Wed |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes As the number of coaches is limited per day, group organisers should pre-book their visit in advance |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes by written appointment. |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes Saturday 16 July 2010. All proceeds from garden admission tickets will go to the NGS |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||
| Adult £10, child £5, family £25. Groups £8.50. | ||||||
| Onsite Facilities | ||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: The garden is less busy after 3pm. Disabled access to one third of garden due to the location of informal and uneven pathways and steps |
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| Garden Features | ||||||
| Celebrated 20th-century garden in the beautiful north Cotswolds; One of England's greatest gardens, an Arts & Crafts masterpiece; Series of outdoor rooms each with its own unique character; Old roses, unusual plants and trees from around the world; Nestled in the Cotswolds with stunning panoramas across the Vale of Evesham | English Heritage Garden Grade: I | |||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Lawrence Johnston |
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| The great innovation, so triumphantly executed at Hidcote, is to bring the experience of the vast traditional English country house gardens with their extensive plantings over a wide area into an intimate human-scale garden of about ten acres. Lawrence Johnston achieved this by creating a series of 'rooms', each with beautifully arranged content providing surprises at every turn. Not so surprisingly it has been widely copied. There is so much to see here that a mere list of the numerous compartments and their incredible range of rare and interesting plants, some of which carry the Hidcote name, would be tedious and could never do justice to the thrill of seeing the real thing. This is without question the most influential garden of the 20th century and is at its core a plantsman's garden, echoing Vita Sackville-West's depiction of Johnston as a botanist and plant hunter, though few if any of his horticultural peers have had have had the skill to display their results with such finesse. | ||||||
| History of Garden | ||||||
| The garden at Hidcote was started by Lawrence Johnston who arrived at Hidcote with his mother in 1907 and developed it himself from exposed farmland, gradually enclosing the surrounding pastures as he went. To augment the collection, Lawrence Johnston took part in two major plant hunting expeditions with George Forrest to China and with 'Cherry' Ingram to South Africa. In planting the garden he was assisted by his friend Norah Lindsay and indeed had intended to leave Hidcote to her when he departed to live permanently in the South of France. There at Serre de la Madonne, near Menton, he created another famous garden, but sadly Norah Lindsay died in 1945. Hidcote was therefore acquired by the National Trust in 1948 which has striven ever since to retain the spirit and content of the original garden. | ||||||
| Nearby Gloucestershire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Holly House, Chipping Camden |
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| Inns & Pubs: Howard Arms, Ilmington Fleece Inn, Bretforton |
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