Not all autumn gardens rely on berries, fiery foliage or even drifts of interesting seedheads for their wow factor. The garden at Bourton House in the Cotswolds does autumn rather differently, in a style that sets it slightly apart from the traditional English country house, despite its pedigree as a property of historic interest on the edge of Bourton on the Hill since the late 16th century.
The main house was rebuilt in Jacobean style in around 1598 and remodelled at the beginning of the 18th century. An old brewhouse, stables and coach house form a courtyard next to the house and nearby sits one of the largest tithe barns in England, built in 1570, which is now used as a café.
Bourton’s garden as we know it today came to life during the 1980s when exuberant colour-themed borders were in vogue and the changing climate encouraged a trend to
