Gresgarth Hall, UK

Home and personal garden expression of Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Gresgarth Hall Gardens has all the ingredients of a great woodland garden – a river, a steep-sided valley with dappled shade provided by hundreds of specially-chosen tress – combined with more traditional formal herbaceous borders not to mention more quirky touches of statues, columns and ornaments to reflect the owner-designer’s Italian upbringing and heritage. And after 45 years of continuous growth and development, this garden perfectly demonstrates what is possible in a wet and windy climate.