• Tower Close in Snowshill (starting point)
• The Court in Broadway

The tour will start at Tower Close in Snowshill. Our friends at Snowshill Manor (National Trust) have agreed that our garden tour ticket holders can use their overflow car park (free) for the duration of the tour. Do consider a tour of the Manor before your garden tour with us, we’d recommend it!

Tower Close has striking views of the Malvern Hills from this 3 acre Cotswold garden positioned at the top of the charming village of Snowshill. Featured in Country Life, the C17 Grade II listed house is surrounded by terraces of garden rooms. Herbaceous borders, espaliered fruit trees and sunken vegetable garden. Plants tumble down the terraces to a romantic stream, ponds, garden features, orchard and meadow.

After finishing the tour at Tower Close, please return to your vehicles and make the short drive to The Court on the Snowshill road on the outskirts of Broadway (next to St Eadburgha’s Church, also worth a visit).

The beautiful gardens at The Court were designed by landscape designer, horticulturist and writer Dan Pearson and are set in 6 acres behind a high stone wall and bounded on one side by a very impressive topiary yew tunnel. The formal gardens include glorious herbaceous borders, a kitchen garden with raised beds and fruit cages, a parterre and a large lawn leading down to the brook and the fields and wildlife lake beyond. Other areas are planted with ornamental Willows and wild flowers.

Marion Mako will be leading the tours and is a freelance garden historian and designer who has worked in both the UK and USA.

Her design work focuses on planting, taking inspiration from various historical styles, a subject she also lectures on at The London College of Garden Design. As part of the series of The Historic Gardens of England, she co-authored two books about the counties of Cheshire and Somerset. She has written books on the history of the late Duke of Westminster’s gardens at Eaton Hall and University of Bristol’s gardens, as well as contributing to the Gardening website Gardenista. In addition Marion is researching the gardens of two large private estates, creating legacy books for their owners, as well as leading a wide variety of bespoke garden tours. She is also a Trustee for the Painswick Rococo Garden in Gloucestershire.

www.makogardens.co.uk

Tickets £25

Tickets go on sale through the website at 10am on 17th March.

You can become a Benefactor for as little as £60 to qualify for priority booking and support our Outreach Projects in doing so, applications are now open.

Tower Close Gardens in Snowshill

Gardens at The Close in Broadway