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Abbey House Gardens

Fabulously designed 5 acre garden brimming with colourful plants.

Wonderful collection of over 2,000 roses and 2,000 herbs.

Marvellous spring bulbs display includes over 130,000 tulips.

Celtic cross knot garden, herbaceous borders, laburnum tunnel, autumn foliage.

Woodland walk to river, waterfall and monastic fish ponds.

Created by the “Naked Gardeners”.

Courts

The Courts

Delightful English country garden, full of colour and variety.

Peaceful water gardens surrounded by irises, lilies or rich autumn foliage.

Arboretum with spring bulbs.

Kitchen garden and orchard.

Unusual topiary and fine ironwork.

Small temple and orangery.

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Iford Manor

Award winning Grade I listed garden designed by Harold Peto.

Tranquil and romantic hillside setting with magnificent views.

Italian style with terraces, colonnades, statues and cypress trees.

Cloisters built by Peto house his collection of classical treasures.

Annual opera and jazz festivals.

PriorPark

Prior Park Landscape Garden

Beautiful 18th century landscape garden.

Set in a sweeping valley with fabulous views of Bath.

Serpentine lake, cascade and ornamental Palladian bridge (one of only four in the world).

Capability Brown and poet Alexander Pope contributed towards its design.

Access to the “Bath Skyline” walk.

Stourhead

Stourhead

One of the world’s finest landscape gardens.

Beautiful lakeside walk with stunning vistas towards ornate classical temples.

Colourful, rare and exotic trees.

Palladian mansion with Chippendale furniture, fine paintings and Regency library.

Wider estate has Iron Age hill forts and 50m high King Alfred’s Tower.

Pride and Prejudice was filmed here.

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Stourton Garden

Magical 4.5 acre plantsman’s garden renowned for its cultivated and dried flowers.

Enchanting pathways wind through camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons and magnolias.

Marvellous display of RHS prize-winning daffodils.

270 varieties of hydrangea.

Wonderful wisteria, roses and delphiniums.

Pond, secret garden and woodland glade.

Westonbirt

Westonbirt Arboretum

16,000 trees - some of the UK’s oldest, rarest or largest.

600 acres with 17 miles of paths to explore.

Spring – magnolias, rhododendrons and bluebells.

Summer – leafy glades, hydrangeas.

Autumn – world famous colourful foliage, National Japanese Maple Collection.

Winter – illuminated enchanted wood.

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