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Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill

Set in the heart of the Cotswolds the garden at Bourton House is a contemporary classic of three acres created since 1983 around an eighteenth century Queen Anne house. The garden features an intricate knot garden, an elegant parterre, a topiary walk, a White Garden, a shade house and exotic planting including cacti and succulents which are bedded out into containers during summer.  Autumn sees exotics such as cannas, Musa basjoo and Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Rex' filling the borders with strong shapes and colours. The garden is a great balance between formality and exuberance, showing the best of the English garden style and all maintained to the highest standard.

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18th century raised walk with metalwork gazebos by Richard Overs being colonised by ivy gives views over surrounding countrys...
Geometric knot garden of box framed within yew walls, with central basket pond from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Bourton Hou...
Neatly wall trained pyracantha in the Fountain garden with lushly planted containers including Melianthus major, cordylines, ...
Collection of pots containing succulents, cacti, ferns, cuphea, begonia and aspidistra. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, M...
Neatly wall trained pyracantha in the Fountain garden with lushly planted containers including Melianthus major, cordylines, ...
The Fountain Garden contained by walls covered by carefully trained pyracantha and box edged beds containing variegated fuchs...
Lushly planted containers in the Fountain Garden include cordyline, Aeonium 'Zwartkop', yellow Xerochrysum bracteatum 'Dargan...
Tightly clipped swirls of box in the Parterre Garden. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, UK
Tropical border including tetrapanax, cannas, lantana, Cyperus alternifolius. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-...
Metalwork screen divides the White Garden from colourful exotics planted around the greenhouse. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the...
Raised trough of succulents and cacti. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, UK
Newly clipped box in the Parterre Garden. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, UK
Ivy covered port-cullis shaped gazebo at the end of the Knot Garden of clipped box. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moret...
Bourton House, dating from the early eighteenth century, set off by a pair of Parrotia persica and a broad sweep of lawn. Bou...
Clipped box and yew in the Parterre Garden punctuated by standard laurels with wall trained pyracantha behind. Gazebo and gat...
Cloud-pruned Ilex crenata on the terrace surrounded by blue ceratostigma, lavender and fuchsia with trained pyracantha on wal...
Circular silver metal planter of succulents. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, UK
Box spheres define borders including sedums, geraniums and penstemons. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, ...
Autumn border of bergenias, sedums, yellow helianthus backed by Vitis cognetiae. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-...
Box buttresses alternate with pots of white flowered argyranthemums in the White Garden. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, ...
Box buttresses alternate with pots of white flowered argyranthemums in the White Garden. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, ...
Shrub clipped into shape like a pointed arch frames a classical urn in the White Garden. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, ...
Amaranthus caudatus 'Fat Spike' with glaucous Melianthus major behind. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, ...
Aloe africanus in a border of exotic looking specimens including orange flowered tithonia. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill...
Border full of lush, exotic plants including large-leaved Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Rex', Cyperus alternifolius, deep pink Fuchsi...
Basket pond at the centre of the Knot Garden came from the 1851 Great Exhibition. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton...
Heron by Michael Lythgoe in basket pond from the 1851 Great Exhibition, the centre piece of the Knot garden. Bourton House, B...
Geometric knot garden of box framed within yew walls, with central basket pond from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Bourton Hou...
Bird sculptures nestle inside the box knot garden. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, UK
Ivy covered port-cullis shaped gazebo at the end of the Knot Garden of clipped box. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moret...
Basket pond at the centre of the Knot Garden came from the 1851 Great Exhibition, with form of Bourton House glimpsed through...
Ivy covered port-cullis shaped gazebo at the end of the Knot Garden of clipped box. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moret...
Ivy covered port-cullis shaped gazebo at the end of the Knot Garden of clipped box. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moret...
Geometric knot garden of box framed within yew walls, with central basket pond from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Bourton Hou...
Geometric knot garden of box framed within yew walls, with central basket pond from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Bourton Hou...
Geometric knot garden of box framed within yew walls, with central basket pond from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Bourton Hou...
Clipped box and yew in the Parterre Garden with standard laurels in Versailles planters framing a bench below orange tints of...
Clipped box and yew in the Parterre Garden with standard laurels and gazebo by Richard Overs. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-H...
Clipped box and yew in the Parterre Garden with standard laurel and trained pyracantha on the wall behind. Gates and gazebo b...
Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, UK
Clipped box and yew in the Parterre Garden. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, UK
Clipped box and yew in the Parterre Garden punctuated by standard laurels with wall trained pyracantha behind. Gazebo and gat...
Clipped box and yew in the Parterre Garden punctuated by standard laurels with wall trained pyracantha behind. Gazebo and gat...
Clipped box and yew in the Parterre Garden punctuated by standard laurels and a gazebo and gates by Richard Overs. Bourton Ho...
Clipped box and yew in the Parterre Garden. Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, UK