Topiary Gardens in the UK

Renishaw Park, near Sheffield, Derbyshire  
The formal garden at Renishaw Hall, originally laid out in 1895 has undergone a remarkable restoration, enhancing the geometric design whilst retaining yew hedges, pyramids and... more

Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire  
Bourton House is a modern, medium-sized but truly opulent garden made around a glorious old house, and maintained very crisply indeed. Originally planted in the 1960s... more

School Lane, Blockley, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire  
Mill Dene Garden is hidden away in the Cotswolds and is a garden to nourish your senses. Horticultural skill is carried lightly but you will still... more

Miserden, Stroud, Gloucestershire  
Miserden Park is an attractive garden of Edwardian detail by Lutyens, set upon 17th century bones. Spring flowers, shrubs, fine topiary, bold grass terraces and large... more

Kington, Herefordshire  
The gardens at Hergest Croft have been created over 100 years by 3 generations of the Bank´s family. There are hidden valleys, open parkland, woodland glades,... more

Belvoir, Grantham, Leicestershire  
Belvoir Castle gardens surround the rustic summerhouse, dating from 1800. The gardens have been lovingly restored to their original beauty, set in a natural ampitheatre with... more

Grantham, Lincolnshire  
Belton´s Park and Garden are, like the house, composed with perfect harmony and proportion. They have serenity, order and strong architectural conviction. With both formal Italian... more

Doddington, Lincoln, Lincolnshire  
Doddington Hall & Gardens is a beautiful family-owned Elizabethan mansion, with original walled courtyards and 5 acres of romantic formal and wild gardens. The West Garden... more

The Estate Office, Grimsthorpe, Bourne, Lincolnshire  
Grimsthorpe Castle is a formal Grade I listed historic flower and topiary garden. Leading imperceptibly into the woodland garden, providing a fine setting for the ornamental... more

Northampton, Northamptonshire  
Cottesbrooke Hall´s award winning gardens are set in delightful rural Northamptonshire. Reputed to be the pattern for Jane Austen´s `Mansfield Park´. Huge 300-year-old cedars set off... more

Underwood, Nottinghamshire  
Felley Priory is a garden for all seasons - with its ancient walls, yew hedges and topiary, snowdrops, hellebores, an orchard of daffodils, herbaceous borders and... more

Broseley, Shropshire  
Benthall Hall is a small garden, once the home of botanist George Maw, containing some interesting plants. Freely-naturalised crocus and daffodils date from his time. There... more

Grange Road, Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire  
The Biddulph Grange Garden is a rare and exciting survival of a high Victorian garden restored by the National Trust. The Garden is divided into a... more

Moseley Old Hall Lane, Fordhouses, Staffordshire  
Moseley Old Hall´s garden has been re-created in the 17th century style. Includes a formal knot garden, a wooden arbour covered with clematis, neat box parterres,... more

Stone Road, Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire  
Trentham gardens, relandscaped in 1759 by Capability Brown with the Italian Flower Gardens laid out by Charles Barry in 1833. The Italian Flower Gardens have recently... more

Packwood Lane, Lapworth, Solihull, Warwickshire  
Packwood House and gardens are noted for the intact layout dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with courtyards, brick gazebos, terraces and the unique yew... more

Warwick, Warwickshire  
Warwick Castle has fine landscaped gardens leading from the Castle down to the river Avon. This was Capability Brown´s first freelance design for which he received... more

Malvern, Worcestershire  
Little Malvern Court, a 10 acre garden, attached to a former Benedictine Priory, offers magnificent views over the Severn valley. Laid out as garden rooms around... more

Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire  
The Manor: The moated Norman manor, c 1130, was the home of Lucy M Boston from 1939 and the setting for her Green Knowe children´s books.... more

North Brink, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire  
Peckover House & Garden is a charming 2-acre Victorian garden at the rear of a Georgian house on the North Brink in the middle of Wisbech,... more

Saffron Walden, Essex  
Audley End House & Gardens has an artificial lake, created with water from the River Cam, running through delightful 18th century pastoral parkland designed by Capability... more

Station Road, Wickham Bishops, Witham, Essex  
Wickham Place Farm is a 2 acre walled garden with huge climbers, roses and wisterias cascading into wide borders bursting with shrubs, perennials and bulbs. One... more

East Ruston, Norwich, Norfolk  
East Ruston Old Vicarage is a remarkable 32 acre garden incorporating formal design, enormous decorative exuberance and brilliant planting. Close to the North Sea but extremely... more

Helmingham Hall, Helmingham, Stowmarket, Suffolk  
Helmingham Hall Gardens, the ancestoral home of the Tollemache family for the past 500 years, who enjoy sharing their passion for the beautiful gardens. Surrounded by... more

Somerleyton, Lowestoft, Suffolk  
The gardens and grounds at Somerleyton Hall have long been considered of first-rate importance, with more than twelve acres of garden surrounding the Hall. The wealth... more

Bullsmoor Lane, Enfield, London  
Capel Manor Gardens: 30 acres of richly planted and beautiful themed gardens, to inspire and indulge the senses. All surrounding a Georgian Manor House and Victorian... more

Arley, Northwich, Cheshire  
Arley Hall, the award winning gardens, recently voted in the top 50 in Europe and in Britain´s top 10, have been lovingly created over 250 years... more

Knutsford, Cheshire  
Tatton Park´s gardens are almost a collection of gardens within a garden. Outside the walled garden, the earliest formal areas include the beech maze, first established... more

Burton Agnes, Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire  
Burton Agnes Elizabethan Hall and Gardens is surrounded by lawns and yew topiary bushes. On the eastern aspect there is a classical pond with fountains and... more

Sledmere, Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire  
Sledmere House has a beautiful 18th century Walled Rose Garden, Knot Garden, recently laid out Parterre, and acres of open space and woodland. Capability Brown designed... more

Richmond, North Yorkshire  
Millgate House has a spectacular, small, enclosed town garden with a blissful secluded setting, amazing views and all year round interest. Immensely stylish, ever changing, with... more

Scampston Hall, Malton, North Yorkshire  
Scampston - The Walled Garden. A 4 1/2 acre contemporary garden created by internationally acclaimed designer and plantsman, Piet Oudolf. Striking perennial meadow planting as well... more

Alnwick, Northumberland  
The Alnwick Garden is one of the most unusual and spectacular gardens of the 21st century. This new garden features the Grand Cascade as its centrepiece,... more

Hartington, Cambo, Morpeth, Northumberland  
Herterton House is a 1 acre small, elegant, formal country garden has been created since 1976 around a 16th century farmhouse. The gardens are in five... more

Godinton Lane, Ashford, Kent  
Godinton House and Gardens are set in a beautiful 18th century landscaped park with views across the countryside. The formal gardens include terraced lawns, topiary, formal... more

Edenbridge, Kent  
The spectacular Edwardian gardens at Hever Castle were laid out between 1904 and 1908 by Joseph Cheal & Son. One of the most magnificent areas of... more

Hernhill, Faversham, Kent  
The 9 acres of garden around Mount Ephraim have an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity. This Edwardian garden is magically set to give fine views of... more

Penshurst, Tonbridge, Kent  
Experience the beauty and tranquillity of Penshurst Place´s enchanting formal garden, a rare surviving example of Elizabethan garden design. It is also one of the oldest... more

Westerham, Kent  
The gardens at Squerryes Court are beautiful all through the year. Originally laid out in the formal style in 1700, they were re-landscaped in the middle... more

Stroude Road, Egham, Surrey  
Great Fosters is framed on three sides by a Saxon moat and the formal gardens are both extensive and exceptional. Originally designed by W H Romaine... more

Handcross, Haywards Heath, West Sussex  
Nymans beautiful extensive gardens developed throughout the 20th century by the Messel family, reflect the character of the founder and creativity of the plant hunters who... more

Torpoint, Cornwall  
Antony house and gardens, an example of one of Cornwalls´ finest early 18th century houses, faced in lustrous silvery-grey Pentewan stone, offset by colonnaded wings of... more

Bosvigo Lane, Truro, Cornwall  
Bosvigo is not a typical Cornish garden. Mainly herbaceous garden, at its best from June onwards. A series of walled or enclosed `rooms´ surround the mellow... more

Bodmin, Cornwall  
Lanhydrock garden overlooks the valley of the River Fowey. Set on a hillside facing north-east above the house and park with bold, formal, Victorian lawns, lines... more

Holmbush, St Austell, Cornwall  
The 30 acre Pine Lodge Gardens & Nursery, comprises gardens within a garden, which hold a wide range of some 6000 plants, all of which are... more

Bolham, Tiverton, Devon  
The celebrated Knightshayes Garden, was originally planned in the late 1870s and then replanted in the 1950s. Crisply-managed formal terraces and a rather formal woodland garden... more

Greenham, Wellington, Somerset  
The gardens at Cothay Manor are five miles west of Wellington, hidden in the high-banked lanes of Somerset. Virtually unchanged in 500 years, this sleeping beauty... more

Charlton Mackrell, Somerton, Somerset  
Lytes Cary Manor is a simple garden in Elizabethan style once the home of medieval herbalist Henry Lyte. The main border was designed by plantsman Graham... more

Montacute, Yeovil, Somerset  
Montacute House and gardens is a simple, elegant, Elizabethan garden comprised largely of green spaces, of lawns and processions of clipped yews. Most memorable is the... more

Englefield, Theale, Reading, Berkshire  
This 9 acre garden at Englefield House falls from the woodland area with magnolia, rhododendron, azalea, acer, camellia and many other species. Below are the two... more