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Garden rooms
A series of linked garden rooms made with hedges and walls
Hidcote Manor Garden, near Chipping Campden, is one of the best-known Arts and Crafts gardens in Britain. Its rooms are made with box hedges, hornbeam, yew and stone walls, and surround a 17th-century manor house.
Johnston
Lawrence Johnston began laying out the garden in 1907
Lawrence Johnston and his mother, both American, settled in Britain about 1900. In 1907 his mother bought the Hidcote Manor Estate, and Lawrence began to lay out the key features of the garden.
Influences
Gertrude Jekyll and Alfred Parsons shaped the idea of garden rooms
Johnston was influenced by Alfred Parsons and Gertrude Jekyll, who designed gardens of hardy plants within sequences of garden rooms. Two of the rooms are the White Garden and the Fuchsia Garden, linked by vistas and furnished with topiaries.
Plant hunting
Johnston sponsored plant expeditions on four continents
An enthusiastic plant collector, Johnston sponsored or undertook expeditions in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America to bring back rare specimens. His care shows in the lavender 'Hidcote', the Penstemon 'Hidcote Pink' and the Hypericum 'Hidcote Gold'.
The Trust
The National Trust took Hidcote in 1948, and others copied the style
In 1924 Johnston bought Serre de la Madone, near Menton in France, and spent most of the year there. In 1948 the National Trust acquired Hidcote. The style of the garden has been widely imitated.
Day 2, morning
Next is Kiftsgate Court Gardens.
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