‘Bursting with colour’: readers’ favourite UK gardens

Our tipsters highlight brilliant spaces great and small, featuring Arts and Crafts design and eco-sensitive planting to adapt to the changing climate

The Walled Garden of Scampston, near Malton, offers so much: it’s a series of contemporary garden rooms within the walls of the 18th-century kitchen garden, and has a beautifully restored conservatory, a garden cafe and a plant shop. In 2003, Dutch designer Piet Oudolf (who co-designed New York City’s High Line) created contrasts in structure and form: from yew pillars, box squares and pleached limes through amber drifts of molinia grasses to the perennial flower meadow. Scampston Hall is the Legard family home and in its grounds you can explore trails through the 18th-century Capability Brown landscape, passing mature trees, follies and an ornamental lake.
Gardens-only ticket adult £9, child £5, scampston.co.uk
Susanna Callaghan