Scene at the Manor Gardens, Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England, UK

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The American Lawrence Johnston with his mother, settled in Britain about 1900, becoming a British citizen and fought in the British army during the Boer war. In 1907 Johnston's mother, Mrs Gertrude Winthrop (she had re-married), purchased the Hidcote Manor Estate. It was situated in a part of Britain with strong connections to the then-burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement and an Anglicized American artistic expatriate community centred nearby at Broadway, Worcestershire. The gardens are renowned for narrow-leaved lavender Lavandula angustifolia, Hidcote Penstemon, Hidcote Pink hybrid, Hypericum Hidcote Gold and acclaimed finest hardy St John's Wort

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Size: 5232px × 3815px
Location: Manor Gardens, Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Philip Chapman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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