Hampshire Travel Guide - Gardens

Plan for a long stay in this 200-acre garden begun in the 1920's by the Rothschild family of bankers. Known for developing hybrid rhododendrons and azaleas, notable features at Exbury include a winter garden, a rock garden, fruit trees, a daffodil meadow, and an iris garden.
Summer Lane, Exbury, Exbury, New Forest, Hampshire, England, SO45 1AZ

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Furzey is an informal modern garden set around a 16th-century cottage, located in the heart of the New Forest near Minstead. There is ample botanical interest at all seasons of the year, with a lakeside walk, heather garden, and summer and winter flowering trees and shrubs.
Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England, SO43 7GL

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Heritage Highlight: 1560 thatched cottage
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It is rare that a stately home is the result of a single man's vision, but Hinton Ampner house and the lovely gardens that surround it are very much the result of one man's passion for Georgian style. Ralph Dutton (1898-1985) grew up in the Victorian pile fashioned by his grandfather from an earlier 18th century house. That house, in turn, was built on the site of a Tudor manor first leased by Dutton's ancestor, Sir Thomas Stewkley in 1597.
Bramdean, Alresford, Hampshire, England, SO24 0LA

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Houghton Lodge Garden is a delightful mix of formal and informal gardens beside the River Test. Here you will find imaginative topiary, including a dragon, chalk walled garden, woodlands walk to a secluded grotto, an orchid house, riverside walks, and lovely herbaceous borders.
North Houghton, Stockbridge, Hampshire, England, SO20 6LQ

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Garden: The National Collection of Roses calls the grounds of this 12th-century abbey home. The estate includes Mottisfont village and surrounding farmland and woods. The park features the largest London plane tree in England, plus small formal gardens.
Mottisfont, Romsey, Hampshire, England, SO51 0LP

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Queen Eleanor's Gardens is an accurate recreation of an early medieval garden, set behind the historic great hall of Winchester Castle. The garden is planted to reflect the style of the 13th century and is based on records of royal gardens at that time. The 'Eleanor' in the garden name refers to both Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I, and Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III. Both queens resided in Winchester for at least part of their respective reigns.
The Great Hall, Castle Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire, England, SO23 8UJ

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The Sir Harold Hillier Garden is one of the most popular visitor attractions in Hampshire. The gardens cover 166 acres containing over 40,000 plants from all over the world, including well labelled scree, heather, bog, and herbaceous gardens.
Jermyns Lane, Ampfield, Romsey, Hampshire, England, SO51 0QA

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Garden: 50,000 new snowdrops! Gardening at The Vyne is on a grand scale that humbles one's own visit to the garden centre... large and varied gardens surround the 16th century mansion, with a walled garden, a small formal garden area with clipped hedges and a 17th century summerhouse, a lovely lakeside walk, with meadows and wetlands beyond.
Vyne Road, Sherborne St John, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, RG24 9HL

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Heritage Highlight: Fabulous Palladian staircase and a superb Tudor chapel.
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West Green House Garden is a popular historic garden featuring a number of interesting follies and a series of small, walled gardens. In the largest of these 'garden rooms' is a patterned herbaceous border and clipped yew hedges.
West Green, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England, RG27 8JB

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