Gardens open to the public
RHS Rosemoor
Huge variety in this extensive Devon garden. Tops for colour
Barrington Court
Old walled gardens with a touch of Jeckyll. A top white garden
D. Austin Roses
Rose overdose from the people who reinvented the rose
Helmingham Hall
An idyllic step back into the 15th Century with the top potager
Snowshill Manor
Enchanting small garden set around a Cotswolds stone house.
Mottisfont Abbey
The archetypal rose garden image in your head – it’s surely from Mottisfont
Cambridge Botanic
Turning plant science into senses-stirring spectacle. Top city garden
Hauser and Wirth
Surprisingly modern garden: the art of planting from a true master
East Ruston Old V.
You name it – it’s in the Old Vicarage somewhere. Best for design scale
Wollerton Old Hall
Paths wind between neat garden rooms. And… there’s no bindweed!
Waterperry
Great anytime but best in October for Michaelmas Daisies
Hidcote Manor
The manor-house that set the English garden style in our heads
Beth Chatto
The doyenne of ‘right plant in the right place’ practices her art
Pensthorpe
Go on a windy day and this garden moves and rustles like no other.
Sissinghurst
History, celebrity and the tower view shows off an iconic garden