IN BRIEF
Name Dowdeswell Court.
What The organically certified parkland and gardens of a Grade II-listed house.
Where Gloucestershire.
Size About 80 acres.
Soil Neutral soil on a limestone shaft.
Climate Relatively sheltered and the south-facing aspect of most of the planting means frosts are short-lived.
Hardiness zone USDA 9.
The entrance is a celebration of naturalistic planting dancing above a matrix of rosemary and lavender
Just 15 minutes drive from the fashionable Georgian spa town of Cheltenham is the restored Grade IIlisted house and gardens of Dowdeswell Court, the family home of Julian Dunkerton, co-founder of clothing brand Superdry, and Jade Holland Cooper, founder of British heritage brand Holland Cooper. Hidden from
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