|
|
|
|
Home / Regional / Europe / United Kingdom / Recreation and Sports / Home and Garden / Gardening / Gardens / Public Gardens
|
| Categories |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Web Sites
|
- Aberglasney Gardens - In the Towy valley of Carmarthenshire. The history goes back to the 15th century. Information on the history and restoration work; visitor details.
www.aberglasney.org
- Auchgourish Gardens - Scotland's Millennium Gardens in Strathspey. Visitor information, and details of progress on planting. Plant nursery and sales.
www.auchgourishgardens.com
- Barnsdale Gardens - Garden built by Geoff Hamilton in Rutland, Leicestershire for BBC TV Gardener's World, including pictures, descriptions of the gardens with forums, tips, news, reviews, links & a competition
www.barnsdalegardens.co.uk
- Bodnant Garden - About 80 acres of lawns, terraced gardens and a wide range of plants, above the River Conwy in N Wales with views towards Snowdonia. Information for visitors on opening dates and facilities.
www.bodnantgarden.co.uk
- Burnby Hall Gardens - These gardens, in Pocklington, Yorkshire, house the National Collection of Waterlilies. Virtual tour, and information on the museum and facilities for visitors.
www.burnbyhallgardens.co.uk
- Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens - An English Baroque garden near Birmingham, in the process of being restored to its original splendour. Information on progress, photographs, events list, and details for visitors.
www.cbhgt.swinternet.co.uk
- Court Hey Park - Guide to the educational park in Liverpool which also houses the National Wildflower Centre, Landlife Conservation, and Knowsley Parks and Countryside Service. Events Gallery.
web.ukonline.co.uk/court.heypark2
- Exbury Gardens - Historic woodland garden established in the New Forest, near Beaulieu, early in this century by Lionel de Rothschild, known for its collection of rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas; site provides history, photos and visitor information.
www.exbury.co.uk
- Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden - Handsomely produced site offers extensive information about the Yorkshire National Trust site preserving Britain's largest monastic ruin and most complete Cistercian abbey, and photographs of the 18th century water garden.
www.fountainsabbey.org.uk
- Groombridge Place Gardens - House and with 17th century gardens near Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
www.groombridge.co.uk
- Hampton Court Van Kampen Gardens - These gardens in Herefordshire have been restored and opened to the public. Virtual tour of the many gardens and the castle. History and visitor details.
www.hamptoncourt.org.uk
- Helmsley Walled Garden - Five acre walled working kitchen garden under the walls of Helmsley Castle, North Yorkshire. Details of history, restorations, opening times and shop.
www.helmsleywalledgarden.co.uk
- Hestercombe Gardens - Gardens in Somerset, location of the lost secret landscape garden, built in the 18th century and recently restored to its former glory. Virtual tour, history, and visitor information.
www.hestercombegardens.com/index3.html
- Llanerchaeron's Walled Gardens - A brief recent history and record of the activities of the volunteer gardeners at Llanerchaeron in West Wales, which is now owned by the National Trust.
www.rios1.freeserve.co.uk
- Margery Fish Gardens at East Lambrook Manor - Internationally famous Grade I listed 'cottage garden' designed by the gardening icon, Margery Fish, specialising in rare plants and the National Collection of Geraniums.
www.margeryfish.com
- Nellie Carbis's Millennium Woodland - Site chronicles a community project to restore a garden and woodland in Grimsargh, Preston known locally as The Nellie Carbis Old School Garden.
www.nellsgarden.fsnet.co.uk
- Painswick Rococo Garden - Introduction to this garden in the Cotswolds and its follies. Pictures, history and visitor information.
www.rococogarden.co.uk
- RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) - Information on RHS gardens (Harlow Carr in Yorkshire, Hyde Hall in Essex, Rosemoor in Devon, and Wisley in Surrey) with links to other gardens to visit.
www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/index.asp
- Ryton Organic Gardens - The gardens of HDRA, the organic organisation. Visitor information for the 32 individual gardens.
www.hdra.org.uk/ryton.htm
- The Dorothy Clive Garden - Intimate and formal garden in North Staffordshire with a variety of landscape features, including a woodland garden, an alpine scree, a damp garden and summer flower borders, with information about location, opening hours and admission.
www.dorothyclivegarden.co.uk
- The Plantation Garden - Created in Norwich by Henry Trevor, Victorian philanthropist, currently being restored by the Plantation Garden Preservation Trust.
www.plantationgarden.co.uk
- Trebah Gardens - A wild sub-tropical ravine paradise by the Helford River in Cornwall. Information and photographs of beautiful gardens, events and art activities. Visitor details.
www.trebah-garden.co.uk
- Walsall Arboretum - Follow the progress of restoring this Public Park in Walsall to its former glories. Description, history, and plans for development. This site uses Flash extensively
www.walsallarboretum.co.uk
- Waterperry Gardens - Near Oxford, with a Saxon Church and gardens made famous in the 1930's by Beatrix Havergal. Information and pictures of the gardens, the art gallery. Visitor and facility details.
www.waterperrygardens.co.uk
|
|
|
|
|