2 for 1 Gardens - Cottage gardens

Celebrate summer by visiting some of the most charming cottage gardens in our 2 for 1 Gardens scheme, using your entry card from the May issue

With fens like these

The cottage garden at The Manor, Hemingford Grey, in Cambridgeshire, is filled with texture and colour. The vibrant frothy green of Alchemilla mollis provides a foil to bristling blue nigella, while the demure bells of campanula contrasts with big and blowsy peonies. Foxgloves and roses complete this Arcadian cottage garden scene, set to the gentle drone of insects among the blooms.

ENTRY OFFER Garden: 2 for 1 £6, single reduced to £4. Under-15s free. Opening details at greenknowe.co.uk Offer not valid on 23 July or 10 September.

Tudor rose

Borders billowing with perennials and flowering shrubs await you at The Priest House and Gardens in West Sussex. Both beautiful and functional, the gardens feature over 170 traditional herbs. The house also boasts its fair share of history. During the dissolution of the monasteries it was seized by Henry VIII. It later passed to Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleaves, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

ENTRY OFFER House and garden: 2 for 1 £6.50. Opening details at sussexpast.co.uk/ the-priest-house Booking recommended. Offer not valid on event days.

Planting pioneer