Rest of the best

Other gardens (in alphabetical order) that made our Best 100 list were:

Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, Dorset Aberglasney, Carmarthen Abriachan, Highlands Adlington Hall, Cheshire

Alton Towers Gardens, Staffordshire

Arundel Castle, Sussex Barnsdale Gardens, Rutland Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire

Bide-A-Wee Co age, Northumberland

Birmingham Botanical Gardens Borde Hill, Sussex

Brodsworth Hall and Gardens, Yorkshire

Burnby Hall, Yorkshire Burton Agnes Hall, Yorkshire

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Castle Fraser, Aberdeenshire Cliveden, Buckinghamshire Clumber Park, No inghamshire Coleton Fishacre, Devon Compton Acres, Dorset

Coton Manor, Northamptonshire

Cragside, Northumberland Crook Hall, Durham Doddington Place, Kent

Down House, The Home of Charles Darwin, Surrey

Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries House, Dumfries and Galloway

Dyffryn Gardens, Cardiff

East Ruston Old Vicarage Gardens, Norfolk

Eden Project, Cornwall Exbury Gardens, Hampshire

Falkland Palace and Garden, Fife

Florence Court Kitchen Garden, Co Fermanagh

Furzey Gardens, Hampshire Great Dixter, Sussex Hestercombe House, Somerset Holehird Gardens, Cumbria Holker Hall, Cumbria Houghton Hall, Norfolk Inverewe, Rossshire

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire

Kentwell Hall, Suffolk Kiplin Hall, Yorkshire Larch Co age, Cumbria Leeds Castle, Kent

Logan Botanic Garden, Dumfries and Galloway

Mo isfont Abbey, Hampshire Mount Stewart, Co Down Muncaster Castle, Cumbria

National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire

Newby Hall, Yorkshire Nymans, Sussex

Packwood House, Warwickshire

Powis Castle, Powys RHS Garden Hyde Hall, Essex RHS Garden Rosemoor, Devon RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Sir Harold Hillier Garden, Hampshire

Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, Belfast

Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent

Sizergh Castle and Garden, Cumbria

Spetchley Park Gardens, Worcestershire

Springhill House, Co Derry

Stockton Bury Gardens, Herefordshire

Stone House Co age Garden, Worcestershire

Stourhead, Wiltshire

Tanglewood Wild Garden, Cornwall

The Beth Cha o Gardens, Essex

The Garden House, Devon The Savill Garden, Surrey

Threave Garden, Dumfries and Galloway

Tollymore Forest Park, Co Down

Treborth Botanic Garden, Gwynedd

Tresco Abbey Garden, Isles of Scilly

West Dean, Sussex Woodpeckers, Warwickshire