A stately pair of ancient Cedar of Lebanon trees frames the classic honey-coloured Georgian facade of Admington Hall, near Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire. Overlooking an expanse of smooth lawn, the handsome house is fringed by further trees that lead the eye to a distant row of chestnuts and the wider landscape beyond. The house dates back to Jacobean times, with the original stone-mullioned 17th-century frontage having become the back of the house when the Georgian section was added. Now, a few hundred years later, the main approach is once again towards the older part of the house via a wildflower meadow.
Antonia Davies and her husband Mark moved to Admington Hall in 1996. They lived with its existing garden for nearly a decade before Antonia set about making major changes. “We had inherited an
