Tania Pascoe

Set amid the flatlands of the North Norfolk countryside is Pensthorpe Natural Park, home to one of Britain’s most radiant June gardens.

The bountiful terraces, countryside views and mossy woodlands of Parcevall’s hillside gardens rejoice in the summer months with vibrant colours, floral fragrances and stirring birdsong.  

Iford’s Italianate gardens in Wiltshire unite the natural and the managed, creating a charming blend of time-worn sculptures, creeping lilac wisteria and formal, flower-hemmed walkways 

 

Early summer is the perfect time to experience the intimate artistry of this small but much-acclaimed rural Northumbrian garden, designed from scratch around a derelict 16th-century farmyard.