Here some history (Wikipedia) The Americans, Lawrence Johnston and his mother, settled in Britain about 1900, and Lawrence immediately became a British citizen and fought in the British army during the Boer war. In 1907 Johnston's mother, Mrs Gertrude Winthrop (she had re-married), purchased the Hidcote Manor Estate. It was situated in a part of Britain with strong connections to the then-burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement and an Anglicized American artistic expatriate community centred nearby at Broadway, Worcestershire.
Johnston soon became interested in turning the fields around the house into a garden. By 1910 he had begun to lay out the key features of the garden, and by the 1920s he had twelve full-time gardeners working for him.
After World War II Johnston spent most of his time at Jardin Serre de la Madone, his garden in the south of France; and in 1947 he entrusted Hidcote to the National Trust.
The style of the garden has been widely imitated. In 2007 a temporary garden designed by Chris Beardshaw that drew inspiration from Johnson's Hidcote was constructed at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.
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| This year the garden was full och these "shard edged" tulips. In the entrance in yellow. Pink was the biggest theme of the garden this spring. |
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| Just look at these magnificent tulips with its matching background! |
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| Beautiful borders and my son specifically loved this cypress tree... |
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| More pinks, here mixed with orange, brave! |
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| Blues mixed with purple and lovely growing sculptures of birds. |
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| My lovely husband Bruce is having a rest in of the lovely decorated "huts". |
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| My son Hugo with girlfriend Perdi took the opportunity to have a rest at the same time. |
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| The surrounding landscape looks like taken from a period drama! It is for real! |
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| One of my favourite at this time of the year, Skunk Lily, yes, it stinks but is soo decorative... |
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| We say goodbye from Hidcote with this lovely view... |
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