Gardens

West Green House Garden could be the inspiration for a Jane Austen novel. It is a quintessentially English manor house and garden but with a twist. The garden intriguingly combines neo-classical style with flamboyant contemporary design. Its hallmark is its lavish planting and use of vibrant colour combinations, whilst retaining Read more [...]

Establised in 1922, Furzey Gardens has 8 acres of delightful informal landscape with extensive views over the New Forest towards the Isle of Wight. Beautiful banks of azaleas and rhododendrons, heathers, ferns, water garden, the strange bottle brush tree, flaming Chilean Fire trees and many other features including 3 delightful Read more [...]

Exbury Gardens were the inspiration of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild. It was his vision, his dedication and his resources which have created one of the finest woodland gardens in the country. A visitor once described Exbury as “Heaven with the gates open.” It is a garden for people young and Read more [...]

On a slope overlooking the River Lymington valley with azaleas, rhododendrons, magnolias, camellias, Japanese maples, hydrangeas, and other rare shrubs interplanted with a wide variety of choice woodland and ground cover plants. Adjoining internationally known nursery. The garden at this nursery contains a wide selection of the rarer and less Read more [...]

The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens (formerly the Hillier Arboretum) was founded by the late Sir Harold Hillier in 1953 and is one of the World’s largest collections of hardy trees and shrubs. The Gardens were given in trust to Hampshire County Council in 1977. It is their commitment that has Read more [...]

A tranquil setting of spacious lawns and fine trees frames an 18th Century “Cottage Ornee” overlooking the unspoiled beauty of the River Test. Visitors can enjoy the contrast between the formality of the traditional walled kitchen garden with its heated greenhouses and hydroponicum (an exhibition of soilless horticulture) and the Read more [...]

Fifteen years ago this garden was nothing more than an unkempt jungle. Furthermore, the owners didn’t realise when they bought the property, that underneath this jungle were the foundations of a gem of a garden. In fact it was the garden that Gertrude Jekyll had designed in 1908 for Charles Read more [...]