***************************************************************** * Gardens-Guide.com * 250,000 UNIQUE VISITORS in 2011 * 2,000 garden pages viewed per day from March to September 2011 * * 1,000+ Page Views! - One-Quarter of all gardens listed on Gardens-Guide.com * were EACH viewed more than 1,000 times in 2011. * * 500+ Page Views! - HALF of all gardens listed on Gardens-Guide.com were * EACH viewed more than 500 times in 2011. * ***************************************************************** *** UPDATE FORM *** Hidcote Manor Garden 1) Please COPY the entire FORM BELOW 2) Make any changes in BRIGHT RED -OR- mark changed Section Headers with: *** 3) email the ENTIRE FORM UPDATED backto us: wd (at) armchair-travel (dot) com **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** *** also - SEARCH ENGINE BOOSTING for both YOU and Gardens-Guide.com *** If your webmaster could place a link from your own website directly to your page on Gardens-Guide.com, this will improve it's rankings in Google and other search engines. Please use the following format and info on your own site to link to your page in Gardens-Guide.com: at Gardens-Guide.com http://www.gardens-guide.com The premiere directory of open gardens in the UK and Ireland today Ask your friends and suppliers as well to link to your page in Gardens-Guide as well. Every link we get into your page helps rankings for both of us in search engines. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** Garden Name: Hidcote Manor Garden Last Modified: 13-01-2011 Garden ID: 0269 pic: 0269_Hidcote.jpg NOTE: If this says "missing", then please send us a picture for your page which is at least 1000 x 1000 pixels in size. Thanks! Owner: National Trust Address: Hidcote Bartrim Chipping Campden Postcode: GL55 6LR County: Gloucestershire tel: 01386-438333 fax: 01386 438 817 website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hidcote email: hidcote //at// nationaltrust.org.uk English Heritage Grade: I Opening Times: NOTE for 2012: Please check with garden owners or their website to confirm current dates open http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hidcote 19 Mar - 26 Jun, 10 - 6, Sat - Wed 27 Jun - 28 Aug, 10 - 6, Sun - Sat 29 Aug - 2 Oct, 10 - 6, Sat - Wed 3 Oct - 30 Oct, 10 - 5, Sat - Wed 31 Oct - 18 Dec, 11-4, Sat - Wed Open Good Fri. Last admission 1hr before closing Best Times of Year to Visit: To see: National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: Yes Comments: Saturday 16 July 2010. All proceeds from garden admission tickets will go to the NGS Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: As the number of coaches is limited per day, group organisers should pre-book their visit in advance Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: by written appointment. House Open for Viewing: No Comments: Admission Prices: Adult £10, child £5, family £25. Groups £8.50. Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: No Only on Lead: No Events: Yes Other Facilities: The garden is less busy after 3pm. Disabled access to one third of garden due to the location of informal and uneven pathways and steps Features: Celebrated 20th-century garden in the beautiful north Cotswolds; One of England's greatest gardens, an Arts & Crafts masterpiece; Series of outdoor rooms each with its own unique character; Old roses, unusual plants and trees from around the world; Nestled in the Cotswolds with stunning panoramas across the Vale of Evesham Designer: Lawrence Johnston Description of Garden: The great innovation, so triumphantly executed at Hidcote, is to bring the experience of the vast traditional English country house gardens with their extensive plantings over a wide area into an intimate human-scale garden of about ten acres. Lawrence Johnston achieved this by creating a series of 'rooms', each with beautifully arranged content providing surprises at every turn. Not so surprisingly it has been widely copied. There is so much to see here that a mere list of the numerous compartments and their incredible range of rare and interesting plants, some of which carry the Hidcote name, would be tedious and could never do justice to the thrill of seeing the real thing. This is without question the most influential garden of the 20th century and is at its core a plantsman's garden, echoing Vita Sackville-West's depiction of Johnston as a botanist and plant hunter, though few if any of his horticultural peers have had have had the skill to display their results with such finesse. History: The garden at Hidcote was started by Lawrence Johnston who arrived at Hidcote with his mother in 1907 and developed it himself from exposed farmland, gradually enclosing the surrounding pastures as he went. To augment the collection, Lawrence Johnston took part in two major plant hunting expeditions with George Forrest to China and with 'Cherry' Ingram to South Africa. In planting the garden he was assisted by his friend Norah Lindsay and indeed had intended to leave Hidcote to her when he departed to live permanently in the South of France. There at Serre de la Madonne, near Menton, he created another famous garden, but sadly Norah Lindsay died in 1945. Hidcote was therefore acquired by the National Trust in 1948 which has striven ever since to retain the spirit and content of the original garden. Local Inns: Howard Arms, Ilmington Fleece Inn, Bretforton Accomodation: Holly House, Chipping Camden Restaurants: Village/Town/Sightseeing: