Bodnant is my favourite, the combination of rare and beautiful plants with a stunning setting; but I also love Powis Castle [another superb setting], Biddulph Grange and Tatton Park.
Logan botanical gardens in Scotland were lovely. Visited last August whilst on holidaygot loads of lovely photos sadly most of them face bombed by daughters stuffed cuddly monkey "Martha" ????
A smaller garden that's worth a visit is crook hall in Durham x
I can no longer travel for health reasons - but when I could we visited quite a few lovely gardens - Chatsworth, Sissinghurst, Kew, to name just a few, Chenonceaux (sorry my French spelling isn't great), and some of the other chateaux in the Loire Region too. Every garden has some wonderful features and some perhaps not so - but it is great for gaining ideas and of what works and what doesn't - I found that most of the gardens were far more interesting to view than the house interiors!
My favourite so far has been Great Dixter. I visited at the very beginning of October and it was wonderful - the exotic garden was in full sail, but it was the sunken garden that I loved the most. An added bonus was spotting Christopher Lloyd pottering in the long border (this was a few years ago, obviously).
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Bodnant is my favourite, the combination of rare and beautiful plants with a stunning setting; but I also love Powis Castle [another superb setting], Biddulph Grange and Tatton Park.
One for the diary: www.leagarden.co.uk/
The Old Vicarage Garden at east Ruston, in Norfolk, blew us all away.
http://www.e-ruston-oldvicaragegardens.co.uk/pages/view/564/home.htm
Logan botanical gardens in Scotland were lovely. Visited last August whilst on holidaygot loads of lovely photos sadly most of them face bombed by daughters stuffed cuddly monkey "Martha" ????
A smaller garden that's worth a visit is crook hall in Durham x
I can no longer travel for health reasons - but when I could we visited quite a few lovely gardens - Chatsworth, Sissinghurst, Kew, to name just a few, Chenonceaux (sorry my French spelling isn't great), and some of the other chateaux in the Loire Region too. Every garden has some wonderful features and some perhaps not so - but it is great for gaining ideas and of what works and what doesn't - I found that most of the gardens were far more interesting to view than the house interiors!
My favourite so far has been Great Dixter. I visited at the very beginning of October and it was wonderful - the exotic garden was in full sail, but it was the sunken garden that I loved the most. An added bonus was spotting Christopher Lloyd pottering in the long border (this was a few years ago, obviously).
Oh and Kew. Wonderful Kew.
Taken during my last visit to Lea Gardens.
Beth Chatto garden, Bressingham gardens,West Acre gardens and Geoff Hamiltons gardens.