How to Avoid the Crowds at Hidcote Manor (Hint: Rain) - Gardenista
There are people who choose to visit gardens in the rain. In the case of England’s most popular gardens, such as Hidcote in Gloucestershire, this could be the only sensible way. When a seminal garden is open in winter, and it happens to be raining, well that is even better. Photographs by Kendra Wilson, for Gardenista. A low-ish wall intersects a vista from the door, of lateral trees leading away across the paddock opposite. The first vista on leaving the back of the house. The old walled garden was the first area to be developed by Major Johnston a descendant of wealthy stockbrokers... ...from Baltimore A spreading cedar of Lebanon hangs like an umbrella over this part of the garden closing the space The garden is also about hedges: there are four and a half miles of them. The kitchen garden, including pigs, is on the right of the trees. The Fuchsia Garden, which Johnston developed as he began to push the original garden beyond the confines of the old walls. in the Old Garden, an arrangement of boulders used as informal edging is revealed in winter. The effect is not very English, more Mediterranean. One of two parallel pavilions which frame the view and provide punctuation for adjacent borders. The hedges take six months to cut.