If you've ever wandered around an English stately home and its magnificent gardens, you will have noticed there is something worth gawking at at every turn. Each flower bed carefully stewarded to perfection, the lawns beautifully manicured, and the hedges clipped into uniformity, backdropped, usually, by a building of serious architectural pedigree. There is little else as fascinating, in my book, as learning about these gardens, though amongst the hundreds of pretty flowers, many English country garden features are totally overlooked.
Whilst not all English gardens have every one of these features, many of them will have at least a few. There are historical and design insights to be gleaned from these English country garden features, or in some cases, simply a chuckle to be had when you notice them.
