Hidcote Manor Garden

It was in 1907 that Johnston's mother bought the Hidcote Manor Estate and by 1910, Lawrence had begun to create the layout of the garden from the fields around the manor house, but the First World War interrupted his progression when he went off to serve in the British Army.

Hidcote Manor Garden is one of the greatest series of outdoor rooms designed, each with its own unique character filled with unusual plants and trees from around the world and English roses mixed with water features and hedges.

Walls or hedges surround each room and contrasts between informal and formal with planting that changes over the seasons, and a return visit to the gardens is necessary.

Nestled in the Cotswolds with stunning views across the Vale of Evesham the gardens have plants more appropriate to differing climates, Taiwan, Maritime Alps and Kilimanjaro.

Many plants have names associated with Hidcote. Campanula latiloba "Hidcote Amethyst" a beautiful bellflower with pendulous lilac pink flowers on columnar stalks of slim leaves; Hypericum "Hidcote" an evergreen with an abundance of golden yellow flowers from mid-summer; Lavandula angustifolia "Hidcote" a bushy shrub with deep purple flowers and narrow aromatic, silver-grey leaves are just some of the plants given the name Hidcote.

The National Trust acquired Hidcote Manor Gardens in 1948 when Lawrence Johnston retired permanently to his other home and garden at Serre de la Madone at Menton on the French Riviera a property that he had bought in 1924.

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