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Miranda, Duchess of Beaufort’s cottage garden on the Badminton estate in Gloucestershire is a most enchanting place. Its many layers of history have shaped the landscape and elegant planting combinations to wonderful effect. It could be the fulsome year-round flowering of the rambling
Rosa ‘Debutante’ growing over an arch with
Clematis ‘Prince Charles’ that begins to stir the senses; or the view through the stone arch towards double borders with the estate beyond. Of course, there’s the summer house and the perfectly positioned topiary, as well as the duchess’s revered tulips. But really it’s the sentiment behind it all that best encapsulates the spirit here. ‘This garden is really a memorial to my late husband, David,’ the duchess tells