Your favorite garden?

[galanthophile]

I love gardens but there are still so many I'd love to visit especially in the south. Not many good ones up north where I live! Of those I have visited I loved Hidcote and Kifsgate and Levens Hall in the Lake District is fantastic - and not just for the topiary.

[Susie]

I was really impressed with Cliveden this year - it had some lovely planting.

[Flora]

Having just returned from a weekend in Cornwall and visited both the Eden Project and The Lost Gardens of Heligan it has to be The Lost Gardens.

[Paul mabbott]

Seeing there's a new year approaching, I thought I'd mention Hodsock Priory - only open for one month a year - Hodsock Snowdrops - Home
Has a mass display of snowdrops and other spring bulbs. A nice piece of woodland to walk around and a good tea room to warm up in!
It's in north Notts, not far from Worksop ....

Wisley and Kew, of course, have something of interest all year round.

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by JeffH

Cambridge Botanic Gardens are well worth a visit at any time of year ..... Jeff

Most Botanic Gardens are of interest (Bristol, Edinburgh, even Sheffield) but Cambridge is a bit special - the only one where I've seen a grass snake!

[Dennis1234567]

I think the best garden i've seen has to be the fenced of areas of Richmond Royal Park. They put up a deer proof fence around large plots of land a few decades ago, then walked away. Nature did the rest.

[galanthophile]

I agree about Hodsock Priory - for anyone who loves snowdrops (like me!) it is heaven! I just wish there was a decent snowdrop garden further north.

[Tinkerbell]

When I was a kid, it was the one to which you gained access to by creeping through a hole in the fence. Inside it was all overgrown, but held treasures of flowers, birds at every season of the year and if you were very fortunate fallen fruit (and if you were very quiet, no one knew you were there). Magical

Sort of open to the public.

Tinkerbell

[nightshade]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbell

When I was a kid, it was the one to which you gained access to by creeping through a hole in the fence. Inside it was all overgrown, but held treasures of flowers, birds at every season of the year and if you were very fortunate fallen fruit (and if you were very quiet, no one knew you were there). Magical

Sort of open to the public.

Tinkerbell

I know the one it used to be the overgrown gardens at the back of The Lamb and Lark
for me

[Tinkerbell]

And now, probably the gardens at Chatsworth House because of the landscaped park designed by Lancelot Brown, and beyond to the views of the wonderful backdrop of hills, valleys and trees which make parts of Derbyshire so lovely.

Tinkerbell