Vista
Key features: Half-day tour of country gardens with gorgeous views and diverse garden themes, ingenious landscaping and clever responses to different challenges of topography, climate and soil type.
Italy inspired this grand formal garden, with its statues and fountains, Corinthian columns reminiscent of Tivoli, and extraordinary stone pieces rescued from Christchurch’s Catholic Basilica. Brick walls and hornbeam hedges create garden rooms, featuring old fashioned roses, citrus, lavender and olives, alongside an English orangery.
This garden also features on the Hills and Plains tour (Thursday & Friday)
A unique response to a challenging site, this terraced hillside country garden features beautiful blooms, a pergola-covered ‘lane of roses’, a summerhouse and paths through a woodland filled with camellias and hydrangeas. With expansive open spaces beyond, you’ll enjoy serenity under the poplar trees surrounding a beautiful pond.
This garden also features on the Hills and Plains tour
This eleven-year-old garden was carved out of a large swampland area, creating a lake as a focal point within a park-like setting. A large orchard, vegetable plots and floral picking garden all hide behind clipped protective hedging. The garden is a little piece of paradise for its hardworking owners.
This garden also features on the Lakes and Streams tour
