BCS visit to Sir Harold Hillier Gardens

The British Conifer Society invites you for a guided walk around the gardens on the 29th April.

We have arranged to meet in the lecture room in the centre of the gardens at 10.30 – 11.00 am for coffee where we will be greeted by Fran Clifton, the Head Gardener, who will be our guide for the day. The lecture room is ideally situated for us to explore in all directions, either to the Winter garden or the Pinetum, or to the other side with the dwarf conifers on the scree around Jermyns House or the Brentry Woodland with some of the older specimens. There is plenty of coniferous interest for us with the bonus of the magnolias which ought to be at their best.

The cost will be £10 per person to include coffee on arrival and tea before departure. (The normal entry charge is £10.40 alone). A sandwich lunch can be arranged for an extra £6.00. All monies can be paid on the day but we would like to know beforehand if you are attending for catering purposes.

Can you please email derek.spicer@btconnect.com or telephone 01858 757477 if you would like to attend, I can then send you directions.

Please note that the gardens open at 10.00am.

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The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens were established in 1953 by the distinguished plantsman Sir Harold Hillier, the magnificent collection of over 42,000 plants from temperate regions around the world grow in a mixture of formal and informal landscapes set in 180acres of rolling Hampshire countryside. Within the Gardens is located the secluded 19th century manor house, Jermyn’s House, which was Sir Harold’s former home and now houses tea rooms and function rooms. The Gardens display stunning seasonal variation and include 14 National Plant Collections, hundreds of Champion Trees, the Gurkha Memorial Garden, one of the largest Winter Gardens in Europe and one of the longest double Herbaceous Borders in the World. New additions to the Gardens include the impressive Wisteria Border and the redevelopment of Hydrangea Walk and the Pond

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National Plant Collections include:  Carpinus (hornbeams)  Cercidiphyllum (katsura tree)  Cornus (dogwoods)  Corylus (hazels)  Cotoneaster  Hamamelis (witch hazels)  Hillier Plants  Hypericum (St. John’s Wort)  Ligustrum (privets)  Lithocarpus (stone or tanbark oak)  Metasequoia (dawn redwood)  Photinia (Christmas berry)  Pinus (pines)  Quercus (oaks)
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens
Winners of Garden of the Year 2017 (Awarded by South & South East in Bloom, part of RHS Britain in Bloom)

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