Our Gardens
Every garden we visit
Photography, history and practical information for each garden featured on a GardenTours.com departure — from Chelsea to Sissinghurst.
Showing 20 gardens
Garden rooms 17 Kent
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Vita Sackville-West's masterpiece of enclosed garden rooms in the Kent countryside — including the world-famous White Garden and the ancient Tower with its views over the Weald.
Arts & Crafts 21 Gloucestershire
Hidcote Manor Garden
Lawrence Johnston's celebrated series of outdoor garden rooms near Chipping Campden — one of England's most influential gardens and the model for Arts & Crafts planting throughout the twentieth century.
Woodland garden 51 West Sussex
Leonardslee Lakes and Gardens
One of England's most spectacular valley gardens — a 240-acre sweep of rhododendrons, azaleas and ancient trees cascading into six lakes in the Sussex High Weald.
Botanic garden 68 Surrey
RHS Garden Wisley
The RHS flagship garden in Surrey — 240 acres of trial grounds, glasshouses, model gardens and specialist plant collections representing the full breadth of British horticulture.
Botanic garden 64 London
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
A UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the world's greatest botanic gardens — 326 acres on the south bank of the Thames housing 50,000 living plants and the iconic Victorian Palm House.
Country house garden 20 Gloucestershire
Kiftsgate Court Gardens
Adjacent to Hidcote in the Gloucestershire escarpment, Kiftsgate is a privately owned garden of great character — famous for the world's largest rose and for bold contemporary additions by successive generations of the same family.
Historic garden 24 Kent
Long Barn
The first garden made by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson at their Kentish farmhouse — a precursor to Sissinghurst, and an intimate glimpse of where the great garden partnership first found its language.
Landscape garden 14 East Sussex
Sheffield Park and Garden
A sweeping 18th-century landscape garden in East Sussex, with four interconnected lakes, magnificent trees and spectacular spring and autumn colour among the finest in southern England.
Botanic garden 18 West Sussex
Wakehurst
Kew's country garden in the Sussex High Weald — 500 acres of wild botanic land, globally important plant collections and the Millennium Seed Bank, which safeguards seeds from 40,000 plant species.
Woodland garden 8 West Sussex
High Beeches Gardens
A 27-acre woodland and water garden in the Sussex High Weald, renowned for its exceptional collection of rare trees, naturalised spring bulbs and some of the finest autumn colour in southern England.
Walled garden 12 Surrey
Loseley Park
The magnificent walled garden at Loseley Park near Guildford — home to over 1,000 roses arranged by colour across a series of formal rooms, set within a 1,400-acre Surrey estate with an Elizabethan manor at its heart.
Country house garden 2 Gloucestershire
Cerney House Gardens
A romantic walled kitchen garden and grounds surrounding a Regency manor in the North Cotswolds — a quietly distinguished garden that exemplifies the unhurried horticultural tradition of the English country house.
Arts & Crafts garden 2 Gloucestershire
Rodmarton Manor
One of the last great houses to be built entirely in the Arts and Crafts tradition, with eight distinctive garden rooms of outstanding character created alongside the house between 1909 and 1929.
Annual flower show 25 London
RHS Chelsea Flower Show
The world's most prestigious flower show — five days every May in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, showcasing the finest garden design, horticulture and plants from Britain and around the world.
Spring bulb display 0 Lisse
Keukenhof Gardens
The great spring bulb exhibition garden near Lisse in the Dutch bulb region — millions of tulips, narcissus, hyacinths and alliums displayed each season across a carefully designed parkland landscape.
Artist's garden 0 Normandy
Monet's Garden at Giverny
Monet's garden at Giverny — the Clos Normand and the water garden with its Japanese bridge and water-lilies — created by the artist as a living source of colour and composition for his late paintings.
French formal garden 0 Versailles
Gardens of Versailles
The gardens of Versailles, designed by André Le Nôtre for Louis XIV, are the supreme expression of seventeenth-century French formal garden design — the template for European court gardens for a century.
Mediterranean villa garden 0 Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
A Belle Époque villa on the Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat peninsula, surrounded by nine themed gardens combining Mediterranean planting, formal design, sea views and Riviera glamour.
Mediterranean botanical garden 0 La Mortola
Hanbury Gardens
One of the great Mediterranean botanical gardens at La Mortola near the French-Italian border — a steep coastal site with subtropical and Mediterranean collections and extraordinary sea views.
Plantsman's garden 0 Menton
Serre de la Madone
Lawrence Johnston's important French Riviera garden above Menton — a plantsman's terraced garden combining Mediterranean planting, pools, shade and the same compositional seriousness as Hidcote.
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