The gardens listed are only examples of many that exist within easy travelling distances from Honeysuckle cottage.

 

Batsford Arboretum: A Victorian arboretum with a stream and plantings of shrubs and bamboos, one of the largest private collections of trees and shrubs in the country.

 

 

Bourton House Garden: An eighteenth century house (not open to public) with a developing garden with lawns, fountains, walks, topiary, a knot garden and herbaceous borders.

 

 

Hidcote Manor Garden: Hidcote Manor Garden, with its structure of outdoor 'rooms', linked by vistas and furnished with all sorts of topiary, recalls both the English garden style and the European connections of its creator Major Lawrence Johnston.

 

Kiftsgate Court: A series of interconnecting gardens each with its distinct character and secrets. The upper gardens surrounding the house are planted to give harmonious colour schemes, whilst the sheltered lower recreate the atmosphere of the Mediterranean.

 

 

Mill Dene Garden: 2 1/2 acre Cotswold water-mill garden located in Blockley with steep terraces rising from the mill-pool, stream and grotto. Cricket lawn, potager and fantasy fruit garden.

 

 

Snowshill Manor: Arts & Crafts-style garden designed to complement a handsome Cotswold manor house. A mix of ornaments and architectural features, bright colours and delightful scents.

 

 

Stanway Baroque Water Garden: A Jacobean house with remnants of an early eighteenth century garden.

 

 

Sudeley Castle and Gardens: fourteen acres including the Queen's Garden, famous for its topiary and old-fashioned roses, the semi-Mediterranean planting of the Secret Garden, the intricate detail of the Tudor Knot Garden and the dramatic 15th century Tithe Barn ruins.