Oxfordshire host some of the best examples of classic English Gardens. The botanical gardens feature garden designs and garden landscaping made famous by English landscape architects of the 18th century such as Capability Brown and William Kent. Plan your tour of English gardens and enjoy the hospitality of our hotel, situated near some of the most famous gardens in England: Stowe Landscape Gardens, Claydon Estate Garden, Oxford Botanic Garden and Blenheim Palace Gardens.
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Blenheim Palace gardens are one of the great
18th century parks landscaped by `Capability´
Brown. The Secret Garden is one of Blenheim
Palace's most popular attractions for plant
lovers as it is a garden for all seasons,
combining mature trees with new plantings.
The beauty and tranquility of the formal
gardens, Water Terraces, Rose Garden and
"A Medieval/Tudor moated manor
house and garden. The planting
design is predominantly twentieth
century. There are herbaceous
and shrub borders. The walled
garden has box-edged rose beds
and mixed borders."
"A walled garden created in the
eighteenth century for the 2nd
Earl Verney. There is a large
Victorian kitchen garden, a pool
garden with a restored
"This 60 acre, private woodland
garden has been planted over
the last 28 years in the natural
setting of an existing woodland.
A huge variety of plants ranging
from trees and shrubs, including
notable collections of oak,
apple, pear and euonymus, to a
"A mid-eighteenth century stone
house with a landscape garden
designed with the help of Sanderson
Miller. There is a great S-shaped
"Britain's oldest botanic garden is near
the centre of the city. It is a classic
seventeenth century walled garden.
Founded in 1621, the planting design
is more botanical than aesthetic.
Loudon described the garden as 'a
venerable establishment. . . entered
by a noble stone archway, through
which is seen a vista to the other extremity of the garden."
"Rousham is the purest example of
an Augustan landscape garden,
designed by William Kent on a
"Managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon
has 5 Tudor houses and gardens
linked to William Shakespeare:
Shakespeare's birthplace: New
Place/Nash's House, Hall's Croft,
Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Mary
Arden's House and Shakespeare's
Birthplace. They all have re-created
gardens and they are all worth
visiting."
"Stowe Landscape Gardens is an
extraordinary, living, breathing work
of art. With its ornamental lakes,
glorious open spaces, wooded
valleys and adorned with over 40
monument temples in all sizes and
styles from Gothic to Classical, this
magnificent landscape park is one
of the supreme creations of the
Georgian era."
"Created from two spring-fed
valleys on the Warwickshire/
Oxfordshire border, the gardens
have been in use since the 12th
century, but were largely
transformed by Kitty Lloyd-Jones
for Lady Bearsted in the 1920s
and 30s, with the creation of
cascading terraces on the valley
sides, extensive herbaceous
borders, and a rare Bog Garden
on the site of medieval fish ponds.
There are large lawns, terraced
borders, elegant stone staircases,
rose garden, orchards, and a rare
kitchen display garden."
"A great medieval castle beside the
River Avon, with park and garden.
Lancelot Brown removed the old
parterres and swept the land down
from the castle to the river. In the
nineteenth century Robert Marnock
added a hexagonal parterre and a
rose garden (c1870). Known as the
Peacock Garden, it is in front of the
conservatory which contains a
reproduction of the famous Warwick
Vase which used to belong to the
family."
"The house was started in 1877.
Five parallel drives lead to the north
front. The garden contains Italian
terraces,a lavish aviary, a rock
garden made from artificial Pulham
stone, Italian, French and Dutch
statues, a large collection of
specimen trees and shrubs. The
practice of furnishing the terraces
with elaborate bedding has been
resumed."
"The gardens date back to 1932
when Miss Beatrix Havergal opened
her School of Horticulture for Ladies. The 8 acre ornamental gardens
include a rose and formal knot
garden, water-lily canal, riverside
walk, and one of the finest purely
herbaceous borders in the country.
Herbaceous nursery stock beds provide a living catalogue of plants,
and there's also an alpine garden,
and the National Collection of
Kabschia Saxifrages."
