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86 THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE
BOURTON HOUSE GARDEN This month our media horticulturalist, Camilla Bassett-Smith, pops a conker in her pocket and heads to a critically- acclaimed Cotswolds garden……
It’s been mentioned by many I know, featured in books I have read and even praised by Adam Frost on Gardeners’ World last month and so finally, I put my own two feet on the soil of Bourton House Garden in Bourton-on-the-Hill.
This three-acre garden surrounds a beautiful 18th century manor house, situated not far from Moreton-in-Marsh, and is autumnally awesome. (How many of us grew up incorrectly saying Moreton- in-the-Marsh I wonder?? Anyway, I digress…)
Entering through a Tithe Barn and past a plethora of crafts for sale, you enter out onto a vast lawn with a salute of staddle stones (I made that collective description up, but think it’s perfectly fitting for a group of stones). Gorgeous espaliered fruit clings to an old wall on your right where a couple of openings entice you beyond.
The white garden is coming to the end of its late summer beauty, no need to visit Sissinghurst with our own brilliant example on our doorstop. Wafts of white still hold on, billowing in the wind like huge clouds hovering around the landscape – Japanese anemones and Nicotiana now full of memories of the adulation they received this year. Another turn and a grass pathway edged by wide herbaceous borders leads you towards the house. Here I loved the combination of Sedum and Molinia – a real treat at this time of year.
Topiary is everywhere in this garden with impressive mounds and spirals and even chickens! There is a topiary walk, a parterre and knot garden – home to a basket pond from the Great Exhibition of 1851 and fed by the nearby natural spring.
Around the Main Lawn, borders are full to the brim of the most fantastic perennial planting, including a mix of tender and hardy
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