Hidcote Manor Garden
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Hidcote Manor Garden is a garden located on the outskirts of the village of Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England and owned by the National Trust.
Created by American-born horticulturalist Major Lawrence Johnston, it is often described as one of England's great "Arts and Crafts" gardens with its collection of rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders.
[edit] History
Johnston's mother, Gertrude Winthrop, purchased the Hidcote Manor Estate in 1907. The estate was located within a part of England with strong connections to the then-burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement.
Johnston soon became interested in turning the fields around the estate into a garden. By 1910 Johnston had begun to lay out the key features of the garden and by the 1920s Johnston had twelve full-time gardeners working for him.
The garden was acquired by the National Trust in 1947.
Johnston's influences in creating his garden include such luminaries as Alfred Parsons, Gertrude Jekyll, and others.
[edit] The property
The garden takes the form of a series of "rooms" of various characters created by the creative use of hedges and walls. These rooms are linked by vistas and furnished with topiaries.
