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WANDER IN Wonder Discover more about the first-class design and planting inspiration on offer at the exquisite Cotswold gardens plotted on the previous pages

These delightful, quintessentially English gardens are brimming with inspiration and ideas to replicate at home, providing plenty of food for mind and soul. So why not pay them a visit this year, soaking up each location’s individual heritage, setting and standout features to discover exactly what makes each one so special.

SNOWSHILL: Intimate Arts and Crafts garden

The result of a collaboration with artist and Arts and Crafts architect Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (1865–1945), the garden at Snowshill Manor is enchanting and highly personal. A peaceful place to savour the seasons, the former farmyard was lovingly transformed in the 1920s into a series of evocative garden ‘rooms’, each imbued with a sense of mystery leading into another. Tempting vistas at the end of

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