A recent day out took us to one of our favourite areas, the Cotswolds, to visit an old favourite, and a new. Kiftsgate Court Gardens was new to us, but I am sure we will be back there as it is simply a garden lovers delight. It is situated in Gloucestershire has some wonderful gardens created on the top of, and down the side of the Cotswold escarpment just south of Mickleton and was built in 1887-91 by Sydney Graves Hamilton who owned Mickleton Manor, on to which one of his ancestors, Walwyn Graves (1744-1813), had built a Georgian front with a high portico. This facade was moved, with the help of a specially constructed light railway, up to a new site on Glyde Hill and become Kiftsgate Court.
There were peonies in abundance during our visit where I think they must have relished the sunny sheltered spot in the Four Squares garden on the upper terrace.
Although the gardens are not huge, they do pack an awful lot into a relatively small and difficult place to work. This White Sunk Garden does now have some other colours introduced which give it a greater variety.
The Water Garden was created on what was once the tennis court, and the surrounding yew hedges add to the feeling of serenity created by the flat reflective surface of the water.
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After a very pleasant visit here we took a trip just up the road to
Hidcot Manor Gardens, to complete a heavenly day.
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