The English Garden

Wonders of the West

here are gardens featured in these pages that we would love to visit – but not all open to the public or, if they do, it’s perhaps only for a day or two. Or they go on lists of ‘gardens to visit one to life with ‘Wonders of the West’, an exclusive four-day holiday in Somerset and Dorset in June next year.

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