A 19th century house with garden created 40 years ago with fine views over the valley. The garden is mainly herbaceous but is imaginatively planted with interesting trees, shrubs and climbers on different levels. Includes an octagonal gazebo designed by F F Johnson. A nursery garden with 70 varieties of Read more [...]
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Holehird
The garden of 10 acres is set on the hillside with magnificent views. It has a great diversity of plants that grow well in this area including alpine and heather beds and a collection of Azaleas and Rhododendrons. The walled garden has excellent herbaceous displays and contains the National Collections Read more [...]
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Holker Hall & Gardens
Immaculately kept Gardens (25 acres in all) are part woodland, part formal and essentially Victorian in character. National award-winning gardens classed by some as “amongst the best in the world…”. Exotic trees and shrubs. Also a beech and oak walk with rhododendrons, azaleas, magnolias and camelias. Summer garden, rose garden Read more [...]
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Graythwaite Hall Gardens
About 6 acres of garden landscaped by Thomas Mawson. A spring garden settled in a wooded valley of twelve acres exhibiting an extensive collection of rhododendrons and azaleas. It is much as Mawson finished it although the modern era now offers a greater selection of hybrids and species.
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Dorothy Clive Garden
The Dorothy Clive Garden is intimate and informal. It embraces a variety of landscape features, including a superb woodland garden, an alpine scree, gravel garden and many fine mixed borders. Visitors will discover the great variety of form and colour and the fine views of the surrounding hilly countryside. The Read more [...]
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Dunham Massey (NT)
Georgian house with Edwardian additions set in a 250 acre wooded park, a rare survivor of 18th century formal design. The park also has an ancient herd of fallow deer. The richly planted garden contains an 18th century orangery, a Victorian bark house and well house; all set amongst mixed Read more [...]
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Fletcher Moss Botanical Gardens
The park, acquired as a gift from Alderman Fletcher Moss in 1914, has 21 acres of gardens and woodland renowned for their botanical beauty. The botanical gardens feature an interesting rock garden, with many uncommon alpines, bulbs, screes and marginal plants situated around the natural pond and water features. There Read more [...]
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Cholmondeley Castle Gardens
The gardens at Cholmondeley Castle were originally laid out when the 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley built the castle between 1801 and 1804. Located off the A49 Whitchurch to Tarporley road, the gardens have been extensively replanted since the 1960’s under the direction of Lady Cholmondeley. Fine azaleas, rhododendrons, flowering shrubs, Read more [...]
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Acorn Bank Garden & Water Mill (NT)
A one hectare garden protected by fine oaks under which grow a vast display of daffodils. Inside the walls there are orchards growing old English fruit varieties, surrounded by mixed borders with shrubs, herbaceous plants and roses, while the impressive herb garden has the largest collection of culinary and medicinal Read more [...]
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Arley Hall and Gardens
Arley Hall is home to Viscount Ashbrook and his family. Within its eight acres of formal gardens, South West of the house, are many different areas, each with its own distincitve character. Arley Hall gardens were largely laid out in the 1840s, but every generation has added something since. There Read more [...]