Gardens, Parks & Arboreta
John and I love gardens and before we started the Old School B and B we enjoyed going to visit the beautiful gardens in the Cotswolds. Cottage gardens, formal gardens, Rococo gardens – they are all within reach of The Old School and many of them have a wonderful cafe that you can collapse in afterwards and have an indulgent, typical English afternoon tea. (Scones are John’s favourite!)
Click on any of the links below to go to their website.
Barnsley House Gardens, Barnsley, between Cirencester and Bibury
Batsford Arboretum, Batsford, Moreton-in-Marsh
Blenheim Palace Gardens, Woodstock
Bourton House Garden, Bourton-on-the-Hill, near Moreton-in-Marsh
Buscot Park Gardens, Faringdon
Cotswolds Lavender Fields, near Snowshill and Broadway
Hidcote Gardens, Hidcote Bartrim, near Mickleton and Chipping Campden
Highgrove Gardens, Doughton, near Tetbury
Kiftsgate Court Gardens, near Mickleton and Chipping Campden
Oxford Botanic Garden / Harcourt Arboretum, Oxford and Nuneham Courtenay
Owlpen Manor Gardens, near Uley
Mill Dene Garden (Blockley, near Moreton-in-Marsh)
National Garden Scheme Open Days (website to search for local open gardens)
Rococo Garden, Painswick, near Stroud
Seizencote House and Gardens, near Moreton-on-Marsh
Sherborne Estate and Lodge Park, Aldsworth, near Cheltenham
Sudeley Castle Gardens, near Winchcombe and Cheltenham
Upton House Gardens, near Banbury
Waterperry Gardens, Wheatley, near Oxford
Westbury Court Garden, Westbury-on-Severn
Westonbirt, Tetbury: The National Arboretum
Woodchester Park, Nympsfield, Near Stonehouse
GARDEN / FLOWER SHOWS AND EVENTS
WINTER
Snowdrop Season:
SPRING
The Garden Celebrated, Royal Gardens, Highgrove (April)
RHS Malvern Spring Festival, Three Counties Showground, Malvern
Barnsley Village Garden Festival (May)
SUMMER
Blenheim Palace Flower Show Woodstock (June)
Festival of Nature, Stroud (June)
Garden Week, Sudeley Castle (June)
Witney Festival of Fowers and Fabric, Witney (July)
Stratton and Baunton Annual Horticultural Show ,Cirencester (August)
Deerhurst Flower Festival (August)
Cotswolds Living Landscape Festival, Aldsworth (September)
Apple Days (October) and Stroud
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/snowshill-manor-and-garden/whats-on
http://www.chadlington.com/village/annual-events/apple-day
