Hidcote Manor Garden, Gloucestershire

Hidcote Manor Garden, Gloucestershire
ISBN-10
0707801664
ISBN-13
9780707801667
Category
Travel / General
Pages
64
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
National Trust
Author
Anna Pavord

Description

Hidcote in Gloucestershire is an arts and crafts garden created by Lawrence Johnston in 1907. It combines formal planning with more informal planting in the cottage garden tradition, and is one of the key British gardens. Many popular plant varieties such as verbena and hypericum were developed here.

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