{"id":185632,"date":"2025-06-15T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185632\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:00:16","slug":"i-had-a-look-around-cliftons-hidden-gardens-and-was-mind-blown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185632\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I had a look around Clifton’s hidden gardens and was mind blown’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It gives you a unique insightThe gardens at Cornwallis Crescent<\/p>\n

Last weekend, I found myself having to entertain a couple of friends visiting Bristol for the weekend but unsure what to do with them.<\/p>\n

My initial thought was Millennium Square and the Festival of Nature, but I got the wrong weekend – that is on this weekend. Turning to our best friend Google, an event quickly stood out to me: the Clifton<\/a> and Hotwells <\/a>open gardens weekend.<\/p>\n

With the forecast being for dry and sunny weather<\/a>, this would be a nice way to spend the day outside – especially given my friends are both into gardening. Tick, tick, I am thinking.<\/p>\n

The annual event has now been running for over a decade and sees more than 20 communal garden squares and private gardens hidden in the area open to the public for a single weekend in the summer.<\/p>\n

The gardens at Cornwallis Crescent were my absolute favourites <\/p>\n

Being given a map when we bought our tickets in a little stall by Victoria Square, I have to admit we didn’t have the smoothest of starts. My toddler was struggling and generally in a bad mood (great) and we seemed to keep getting lost, with gardens taking a very long time to find.<\/p>\n

After exploring a few gardens on the eastern side of Clifton, we headed over towards Cornwallis Crescent – which is split into the East and the West side. And what a treat we were in for here.<\/p>\n

Hidden behind a row of houses were these magnificent and huge gardens. They both had stalls serving food and drinks, so were the ideal place to spend some time.<\/p>\n

The Paragon in Clifton<\/p>\n

With Cornwallis Crescent East having a small playground, I spent over an hour there – finally being able to relax as my son played around. My friends took the opportunity to explore a couple more gardens, but I do not regret our choice of staying there; I would come back to this event just for this gorgeous hidden garden.<\/p>\n

We rounded off the day by visiting the gardens at the Paragon, having overheard these were a must visit – and those women were not wrong.<\/p>\n

With houses in the street selling for an average of \u00a31.8m according to Right Move, this is certainly a fancy street that, was it not for the open gardens’ day, I may not have discovered.<\/p>\n

The views from the garden at the Paragon<\/p>\n

The garden at the Paragon has direct views over the Suspension Bridge and, at the time we visited in the afternoon, there was a bit of a crowd watching a choir.<\/p>\n

The Clifton and Hotwells open gardens day was a different way to explore one of Bristol’s most well-known areas, giving you a unique insight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It gives you a unique insightThe gardens at Cornwallis Crescent Last weekend, I found myself having to entertain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,18959,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-185632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-clifton","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114685858696428760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}