This is your guide to one of Britain’s foremost destinations for garden lovers – the beautiful county of Cheshire.

 

Few other areas of the U.K. can boast the range and number of superb gardens that can be found in this famously green-fingered location. In fact more than one in eight of all garden visits in Britain take place in Cheshire.

 

And this site uses interactive maps to help you discover a wide range of information about nearly 30 magnificent local gardens, including opening times, garden history, seasonal highlights and plant collections.  You can even take a virtual tour of many of the gardens using the special gallery features.

 

Find details of restaurants and tea rooms, shops, visitor attractions and places to stay within easy travelling distance of your chosen garden – and in this Cheshire Year of Gardens 2008, the site highlights the many fantastic garden events that are taking place across Cheshire this year.

 

So click on the Gardens of Distinction button on this page and begin to discover Cheshire, England's wonderful county of gardens.