Reviews of RHS Garden, Wisley

it has to be 5 stars an excellent set of gardens and very educational as you'd expect. It almost makes you forgive the mess of a carpark and entrance planting as you enter! but thats its only draw back. There is alot to see for those of us interested in plants and walking although they do need to save the Pinetum from neglect. Its best to go off peak to avoid the hoards of kids towed behind their mums who seem to have little interest in plants and abuse it like a inner city park, but such is the way of ignorant modern society. Well done RHS gardeners keep up the good work.

(5.0/5)

In recent years Wisley has become an inspiring garden to visit. Even the bedding as you enter was different this summer. It had been formed rather like a sculpture and made from mounds of red bedding shaped as a dragon. How interesting to see new ideas.

The planting around the new glasshouse is fabulous and Tom Stewart Smith has designed a master piece. I love the curves of the beds as they encircle the lake and accentuate the topography of the site. The grasses and soft planting contrasts well with the clipped hornbeam which has been used in the straighter more formal areas.

The Education centre and garden is also very innovative and the teaching staff are happy to try out new things. This summer they have been featuring interactive sound sculptures which local Sculptor Claire Knights made for my Gold medal winning RHS Hampton Court Garden. The small show garden was all about appreciating sound in the garden and the team at RHS wanted to be able to encourage the children to listen to the sounds around them. We are hoping that for half term the percussion screens used in the show garden will also be installed for use during the 'Family Days'. Please see my webb site www.designsforallseasons.co.uk to see my award winning garden and see my particular style of garden design.

Witton Street is an opportunity to see some small show gardens which are permanent exhibits and hopefully there will be more of these or they will change every couple of years. I long to see the small gardens get a makeover and a breath of fresh thinking - I expect this will be next. It feels to me that this is a garden to watch and keep returning to.

(4.0/5)

It's impossible to over visit this garden ! Rather like the Hilliers gardens and Arboretum it is a plant-lovers heaven. Pleasantly laid out, with an interesting range of garden design styles and an enormous selection of fascinating plants with lots to admire in flower whatever the time of year. Now that the new glasshouse is built and the plantings are flourishing one can enjoy a day in the tropics as well! It has a good range of exotic flowering plants to always be interesting.

(5.0/5)