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Famous gardens
We look after the greatest collection of historic gardens and garden plants under single ownership in Europe, if not the world. They encompass more than 500 years of history and a vast range of garden styles and fashions. Learn about the most famous and significant gardens in our care.
- Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
- Anglesey Abbey is widely acknowledged as having one of the finest collections of garden statuary in the country. Amongst the classical statues, you can discover a series of specialist plant collections growing at the Abbey, many of which are named after the people and places with links to the garden.Visit Anglesey Abbey
- Biddulph Grange Garden, Staffordshire
- Victorian horticulturist James Bateman created this garden with plants and objects collected from, or inspired by, countries across the globe. Go on a journey at Biddulph Grange Garden to discover an Italian terrace, an Egyptian pyramid, a Himalayan glen and a Chinese-inspired garden.Visit Biddulph Grange Garden
- Blickling Estate, Norfolk
- Blickling has one of the only remaining gardens where you can still see the influence of Norah Lindsay, a socialite garden designer in the 1920s and 1930s who became a major influence on garden design. If you're short on time, make sure you explore the Temple, Orangery and Walled Garden.Visit Blickling Estate
- Bodnant Garden, Conwy
- Bodnant is well known for its plants from around the world and has more than 80 acres of gardens. Discover the grand Italianate terraces with rose gardens, lily pools, herbaceous beds and a dramatic dell. There’s varied planting all year round, including in the Winter Garden during the cooler months.Visit Bodnant Garden
- Chartwell, Kent
- The formal Rose Garden and the Walled Garden are horticultural highlights at Chartwell. The Rose Garden was designed by Lady Churchill and leads into the terrace lawn, which boasts views over the surrounding estate. The Walled Garden, also a working kitchen garden, includes walls built by Sir Winston Churchill.Visit Chartwell
- Claremont Landscape Garden, Surrey
- Many of the great names in landscape design history have played a part in the creation of the pleasure grounds at Claremont. Take a stroll by the serpentine lake, grotto, Belvedere Tower, Camellia Terrace and the grass amphitheatre – believed to be the largest left in Europe.Visit Claremont Landscape Garden
- Cragside, Northumberland
- William and Margaret Armstrong engineered the landscape and experimented with plants to create a grand designer garden at Cragside. They added man-made lakes, towering North American conifers and created an enormous Rock Garden to surround their home.Visit Cragside
- Hidcote, Gloucestershire
- Discover one of the most influential 20th-century British gardens. Hidcote is an Arts and Crafts masterpiece, nestled in a north Cotswolds hamlet. Designed as a series of outdoor rooms separated by walls and hedges, each garden is different in character and scale.Visit Hidcote
- Hill Top, Cumbria
- Walk through Beatrix Potter's garden at Hill Top to see her beloved children's books come to life. Wander through herbaceous borders filled with cottage-style plantings based on illustrations in her books, and spot the beehive nestled into the garden wall, just as Beatrix portrayed it in The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck.Visit Hill Top
- Mottisfont, Hampshire
- Ancient trees, babbling brooks and rolling lawns frame this 18th-century house, which was once a priory. The Walled Garden contains a world-famous rose collection, as well as lavender hedges and herbaceous borders packed with colour from geraniums, pinks, phlox and agapanthus.Visit Mottisfont
- Mount Stewart, County Down
- Mount Stewart is one of the most remarkable and distinctive gardens we care for, with rare and exotic plants flourishing in a subtropical climate. Look out for the stone pergola in the Sunk Garden and the topiary Irish harp in the Shamrock Garden, as well as colourful borders and statues in the Italian Garden.Visit Mount Stewart
- Nymans, West Sussex
- Discover romantic ruins, intimate gardens and internationally recognised plant collections at this Sussex garden created by plantsman and designer Ludwig Messel in the late 19th century. Set against a woodland backdrop, you’ll find a mix of formal and informal planting.Visit Nymans
- Powis Castle and Garden, Powys
- With an Italianate terrace, lavish herbaceous borders, dancing statues and grounds that date back 300 years, the garden at Powis Castle is considered to be one of Britain's best. View the garden in all its glory from high up on the terraces – the 17th-century terraced garden is one of the finest surviving examples of its kind.Visit Powis Castle and Garden
- Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
- This world-renowned garden was created by writers Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. The garden is famed for its vibrant planting schemes and architectural planning. It’s set within the ruins of an Elizabethan house and surrounded by a rich landscape of woods, streams and farmland.Visit Sissinghurst Castle Garden
- Stourhead, Wiltshire
- Stourhead offers an English 18th-century view of Arcadian paradise, with hills, water and classical architecture overlaid by a collection of trees and shrubs. Its designer, Henry Hoare II, began creating it in the 1740s, inspired by his travels around Europe.Visit Stourhead
- Studley Royal Water Garden at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire
- Studley Royal Water Garden is a World Heritage Site and the least altered Georgian landscape garden in England. Take in the great variety of plantings as you explore its elegant ornamental lakes, avenues, temples, cascades and canals.Visit Studley Royal Water Garden
- Trengwainton Garden, Cornwall
- The garden at Trengwainton has a display of award-winning magnolias and rhododendrons. Subtropical species collected from around the world thrive in the shelter of the Walled Gardens, which include a Kitchen Garden built to the dimensions of Noah’s Ark as described in the Bible.Visit Trengwainton Garden
- Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
- Take a stroll through Wimpole's garden to see where famous designers 'Capability' Brown and Humphrey Repton left their mark. The 4.5-acre Walled Garden was built with handmade bricks in the 1790s by Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, with no expense spared. Even the walls were heated to keep peaches warm during frosts.Visit Wimpole
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