country garden

Start by savouring the sensory splendour of an Edwardian garden in late summer before following a pretty walking route to nearby Dingle Garden

Put a spring in your step through the countryside's finest collections of trees and shrubs

Visit the finest gardens of the renowned English landscape designer Humphry Repton.

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.  

Step off the ferry and take a stroll along Devon’s South West Coast Path to the lush gardens of a 20th-century estate, home to exotic ferns, trickling water features and woodland glades  

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 

 

The Rhins of Galloway in south-west Scotland is home to some of Britain's most beautiful county gardens – discover six of the best with Scotland's Garden Route

 

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.  

An idyllic country house features in BBC One's 2017 drama – but not the one author EM Forster had in mind. Here is our guide to the TV filming locations used in Howards End.