Topiary

NOTES: The gardens were redeveloped from 1905 by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, a landscape architect and the Commissioner of Gardens for the City of Paris.

NOTES: The medieval hall was built between 1388 and 1400 for John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon. It was almost derelict when it was bought in 1925 by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst, who undertook its renovation. Dorothy Elmhirst was repsonsible for the creation of the gardens with the landscape designers Beatrix Farrand and Percy Cane. The Tiltyard is thought to be the remains of an Elizabethan water garden.

NOTES: Knightshayes Court, a Victorian country house, was designed by William Burges in 1868 for John Heathcote. The gardens were developed by Sir John Heathcote and his wife Lady Joyce Amory in 1920s following a Victorian design of 'garden' rooms, formal terraces, a kitchen garden and woodland gardens. Lanning Roper assisted with the Pool Garden.

NOTES: A timber-framed hall house dating from 1464, built originally by the Etchingham family. It was restored and extended by Lutyens from 1910-1914, for the then owner Nathaniel Lloyd.

NOTES: A timber-framed hall house dating from 1464, built originally by the Etchingham family. It was restored and extended by Lutyens from 1910-1914, for the then owner Nathaniel Lloyd.

NOTES: A timber-framed hall house dating from 1464, built originally by the Etchingham family. It was restored and extended by Lutyens from 1910-1914, for the then owner Nathaniel Lloyd.

NOTES: This Elizabethan house became the property of Colonel James Grahame in 1688 after his career at Court in the service of King James II. He employed a young French gardener, Guillaume Beaumont, a pupil of Le Notre at Versailles, to plan a fashionable garden in 1689-1712. The garden has survived in its original design and the topiary is some of the oldest in the world.

NOTES: This Elizabethan house became the property of Colonel James Grahame in 1688 after his career at Court in the service of King James II. He employed a young French gardener, Guillaume Beaumont, a pupil of Le Notre at Versailles, to plan a fashionable garden in 1689-1712. The garden has survived in its original design and the topiary is some of the oldest in the world.

NOTES: This chateau existed as early as the 12th century and was almost completely rebuilt after 1480. It became the seat of the Fribourg Langvogts from 1555, was sold to the Bovy family in 1938 and was bought back by the state of Fribourg in 1938.

NOTES: The gardens at Hidcote Manor (a late 17th century building, refaced in the 18th century with 20th century additions) were laid out between 1907 and 1930 by the garden designer Lawrence Johnston, whose mother had acquired the estate in 1907.