Hidecote Gardens

Let’s go to Hidecote Gardens, only 20mins up the road and it’s mostly road not lane.

Ah, we have been here before. Not to worry says Bernadette I don’t remember anyway. Alas.

Still a lovely place particularly without the heat and crowds of last time.

School is back and the demographic has certainly changed. Average age increased by 45years and the walking aids by a hundred fold.

The National Trust has had the property for 70 years, left to them by Lawrence Johnston who created the gardens between 1907 and 1938. A major in the army he also had the good fortune to be the son of a very rich American mother who bought him the property as a “blank canvas” and $20 million on her death.

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