Scampston Hall, UK

A veritable cornucopia of contrasts, the Walled Garden at Scampston Hall serves up a very modern garden next to a historic stately home. The precise and formal structure of tightly clipped yet undulating yew hedges alongside billowing and blousy herbaceous borders reveal surprises to visitors at every turn. At the heart of the garden is the Perennial Meadow with its very naturalistic style which leads to garden rooms such as the Drifts of Grass, Serpentine Garden, Silent Garden, Cut Flower Garden and the Vegetable Garden. This may have been Piet Oudolf’s first major commission in Britain nearly twenty years ago, but it’s still going strong – still beautiful, still engaging and still very relevant.