Hidcote Manor Garden

Major Lawrence Johnston began Hidcote in 1907 and worked on it for forty years, dividing the ten acres into a sequence of outdoor rooms separated by hornbeam, holly, and yew hedges. The Red Borders, the White Garden, the Long Walk, and the Pillar Garden are each composed as a stage set.

Hidcote was the first garden the National Trust acquired (in 1948) on the strength of its planting alone, rather than as an adjunct to a great house. It rewards a slow visit; allow two to three hours.