비드포드 온 에이번‬에서 가장 멋진 ‪4‬개의 천연기념물

코츠월드 가장자리에 있는 짧은 휴가 중에 우연히 Hidcote Manor Garden을 발견했습니다. 그리고 저희는 말할 수 있습니다: 이곳은 저희가 본 정원 중 가장 아름다운 곳 중 하나였습니다. 모든 미터가 새로운 관점, 새로운 인상, 새로운 빛 조건을 열어줍니다. 저희는 정원 공간을 통해 경이롭게 걸었고 매우 감동했습니다. 위키피디아는 다음과 같이 씁니다: "Hidcote Manor Garden은 Arts&Crafts 스타일의 영국식 공원입니다. 글루스터셔 주의 치핑 캠든 북동쪽에 있는 히드코트 바트림에 위치해 있습니다. 이 정원은 1907년부터 미국인 부호인 Lawrence Waterbury Johnston이 조성했으며 1948년부터 National Trust가 소유하고 있습니다. 40,000제곱미터가 넘는 이 단지의 특징은 무엇보다도 다양한 정원 공간, 즉 영어로 Outdoor Rooms로의 구분, 시각 축, 즉 영어로 Vistas, 예술적으로 다듬어진 관목, 그리고 빨간색 숙근초 화단, 즉 영어로 Red Borders입니다. Hidcote Manor Garden은 코츠월드 북쪽 가장자리의 해발 183m 고원에 위치해 있습니다. 글루스터셔 주에 속하며 워릭셔 주의 경계에 위치한 히드코트는 믹클턴에서 동쪽으로 약 2km, 치핑 캠든에서 북동쪽으로 약 7km, 스트랫퍼드어폰에이번에서 남쪽으로 16km 떨어져 있습니다. 히드코트 정원은 National Heritage List for England에 최고 등급인 Grade I으로 등록되어 있습니다." 세 시간 동안의 방문은 카페에서 맛있는 케이크와 클로티드 크림으로 마무리되었습니다. 저희의 결론: 이 지역에 계신다면 꼭 들러보세요!

wildlife can be spotted in these fields if you are quiet and patient enough, you can catch a baby deer hopping around

A must see in the Northern Cotswolds.

In spring 2022 Morton Hall Gardens opens its gates to visitors for its annual Tulip Festival, with all ticket sales supporting costume-making at the RSC. More than 100 tulip varieties can be admired in borders,  pots and three cut flower marquees, revealing the magic and splendour of the queen of the spring flowers. Bloms Bulbs, winner of 68 Chelsea Gold medals, supply the bulbs and will be on site with expert advice on your favourite choices. History of Tulips The tulip’s conquest of western Europe began in the Netherlands: In the mid-16th century, travellers brought back bulbs from the Ottoman Empire. The Turks had been cultivating tulips as early as 1000 AD and adopted them as an emblem of the court. The correct name for tulips is the Persian word ‘lale’, but there was a confusion with the Persian and Turkish words for ‘turban’. This is how the misnomer was created and adhered to ever since. In the Dutch Golden age, tulips caused the first major financial bubble. They became the ultimate status symbol. During ‘Tulipmania’, which lasted from 1634 to 1637, just one bulb of a desirable tulip could fetch the same price as a house in the best quarter of Amsterdam. In England, tulips were introduced in the 1630s, which is probably why they don’t feature in Shakespeare’s works. Nowadays, tulips are widely available and affordable. However, they have not lost their magical pull. Tulip festivals are celebrated in many countries. The Netherlands, where tulips are bred and sold in billions, host the most important and well-known. However, if you visit Istanbul in April and early May, you will find that more than 20 million tulips have been planted throughout the city for the ‘Lale’ Festival. This tradition goes back to the late 17th to mid-18th century, which was the height of tulip popularity in the Ottoman Empire, as can still be seen in the ceramic decorations of many palaces. What is tulip magic? I like to compare it to a carnival or New Year’s fireworks. There is a joyful, limitless riot of colour and shapes. All is allowed: the boldest and most outrageous combinations and wild pageants of pattern. It is the ultimate victory over the bleakness of winter. But tulip festivals are more than celebrations of winter’s end. They are also a great opportunity to see hundreds of different varieties ‘in the flesh’. Beyond colour and shape, there are scent, texture and habit. It can be startling how varieties that look very similar on a catalogue page will appear very diverse when planted next to each other. An ideal opportunity to find the tulip you have been looking for!

The Welcombe Hills and Clopton Park offer delightful walks through grassland and woodland. Woolly thistle, quaking-grass and the diminutive adder’s-tongue grow in the grasslands where ant hills created by yellow meadow ants are a distinctive feature. The woodland contains oak, horse-chestnut and beech with English elm. Birds are plentiful, with great spotted woodpecker, sparrowhawk, little owl, treecreeper and finches enjoying the woodland where ravens breed in spring. Brimstone butterflies are numerous in the spring sunshine. History of the Welcombe Hills: a Shakespearean tale The reserve may have got its name from a historic well found here with its inscription 'SJC 1686'. Margaret, daughter of William Clopton who died in 1592 supposedly drowned here. It was around this time that Shakespeare was writing his famous play, Hamlet, and its believed that this tragic event provided the inspiration for his 'Ophelia' and her lonely death.

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The Arts and Crafts-inspired garden at Hidcote Manor has become one of the most influential of its kind in the world. Created by American horticulturist, Major Lawrence Johnston (1871-1958), the ‘rooms’ of this garden are always filled with intricacy, colour, vibrancy and surprise. The gardens are now in the care of the National Trust. For more information, visit: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hidcote.

Hidcote Gardens, Gloucestershire, is an National Trust's Arts and Crafts garden in the north Cotswold not far away from Stratford-upon-Avon.