Hampshire

Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum » A large arboretum founded by the famous nurseryman. The gardens have the largest Winter Garden in Europe, with an impressive display of Witch Hazel and other winter flowering shrubs including highly fragrant Daphne bholuas. It also has herbaceous, scree, heather and bog gardens. The Gurkha Memorial Garden has an extensive collection of Nepalese plants. Read more on Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum

Mottisfont Abbey Garden » A former Augustinian priory beside the River Test with a park and garden. The park has ancient trees and an eighteenth century summer house. The Lime Walk was designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe in 1936. The Rose Garden, planted by Graham Stuart Thomas with pre-1900 shrub roses, is in the old kitchen garden. He wrote: 'I like to think that.. The rose's pomp will be displayed far into the future at Mottisfont where my work of some thirty years collecting these varieties together from France, Germany and the United States, and numerous gardens and nurseries in the British Isles, will not be set at naught'. Read more on Mottisfont Abbey Garden

Hinton Ampner Garden » <p>A restored eighteenth century house with a twentieth century garden. The garden was made by Ralph Dutton (Lord Sherbourne), who wrote a book on <em>Hinton Ampner: A Hampshire Manor</em> (Batsford, 1968). He also wrote a history of the <em>English Garden</em> (1937). Mea Allen described its 'one of Britain's great gardens to be seen if you can. A classical beauty of layout and ornament'. Ownership then passed to the National Trust. The garden has walks and terraces with hedges, topiary, ornaments and excellent planting. Dutton explained that 'my interest lies more in shrubs than in flowers' and that 'what above all I want from a garden is tranquility'. In his history of the <em>English Gard..... Read more on Hinton Ampner Garden

Furzey Gardens » <p>A sixteenth century thatched cottage with a twentieth century heathland and woodland garden, in the New Forest, concentrating on flowering shrubs and bulbs. It was made by Hugh Dalrymple.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/URJIpPXKgmI?start=23" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> Read more on Furzey Gardens

Exbury Gardens » Created by Lionel de Rothschild in the 1920s, Exbury is a great rhododendron and azalea garden. The gardens also include a Daffodil Meadow, Exotic Garden and Herbaceous Garden. There is a popular narrow gauge steam railway that takes visitors round the northeast corner of the gardens. Exbury was regional winner of an "England in Excellence" award in 2003, and the prestigious Christie's Garden of the Year winner in 2001.<P> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kL1IQoPbBuM?start=23" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> Read more on Exbury Gardens