Spring/Summer Events Listings 2018 No.8 Dear Members Tuesday 27th March

Morning self-drive Welcome to the HGT Events listing for Sandhill Farm, Sherfield English, Spring/ Summer 2018. Nr Romsey, Hampshire

Members: £12.00 Guests: £15.00 Your team have organised a varied programme. Responding to your Tuesday 10th April requests this year we have introduced Morning self-drive more morning and afternoon visits as Hortus Loci Nursery, Hound Green well as the full days of previous years. Hook, Hampshire Members: £10.00 Guests: £12.00 Along with a selection of beautiful and inspiring gardens we have a trip to Thursday 12th April wholesale nursery Hortus Loci for a Morning self-drive preview of plants which will be used at Walhampton School, Lymington, RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Hampshire Members: £12.00 Guests: £15.00 We are also delighted to have secured a visit to the rarely open Thenford Friday 11th May Arboretum in Northamptonshire, the Full day coach visit estate, arboretum and garden of Michael Michael Heseltine’s Garden, Thenford and Anne Heseltine. Only open to the Gardens & Arboretum, Thenford, public ten times a year our trip in May is Banbury, Oxfordshire sure to be very special. Members & Guests: £42.00

Please do contact either the organisers Wednesday 20th June or the HGT office at the office if you have Full day self-drive any queries. Rooksnest, Woodlands, and Stockcross House, We are happy for you to encourage Newbury, friends to join you on visits and look Members: £30.00 Guests: £35.00 forward to welcoming you for another great season of garden visiting. Monday 9 July Morning self-drive Best wishes House and Gardens, Nr Newbury, Berkshire Jill Walmsley Members: £22.00 Guests: £25.00 Events Team Chair 1

Tuesday 27th March Sandhill Farm Programme Morning self-drive 10.30 Arrive Sandhill Farm, for tea, Sandhill Farm, Sherfield English, coffee, cake and biscuits Nr Romsey, Hampshire followed by a tour of the Members: £12.00 garden Guests: £15.00 12.30 Depart Organiser: Jill Walmsley 07507 864793 Tuesday 10th April By kind permission of Ros & Andy McIndoe Morning self-drive to include coffee, tea

We are always delighted to visit and a light lunch Sandhill Farm, a fine garden of 2 acres Hortus Loci Nursery, Hound Green on a sloping hillside developed at the Hook, Hampshire home of Ros and Andy McIndoe. Members: £10.00 Guests: £12.00 Following our Autumn 2016 visit, we Organiser: Jill Walmsley 07507 864793 will now be able to enjoy this fascinating garden in the Spring. Andy We will be visiting the Hortus Loci will take us on a tour, entertaining and Nursery for a personalised guided tour, educating us, by sharing his experience which will include an exclusive sneak of many years of garden making. There peek at the plants grown for the will be opportunities to chat, and ask Chelsea Flower Show. With a dedicated questions. You may wish to bring a Show Plant Team, Hortus Loci are able note book, we always learn so much. to source and nurture plants from Books and plants are on sale. across the globe, helping to create everything, from a quintessential English garden to a Jordanian paradise. Working with designers, from the most experienced to the up-and-coming, the team have been part of gold medal winning efforts time and time again. Available to buy will be a comprehen- sive selection of the highest-quality herbaceous perennials and shrubs in a

Ros and Andy McIndoe range of sizes in the plant

How to apply for 2018 Events

Please complete the enclosed application form and send it along with your cheque made out to Hampshire Gardens Trust to the office. Application cut-off dates are shown on the application form. Event information will be issued after the cut-off date. If you would prefer to have your event information posted to you, please indicate on the application form and send a stamped- addressed envelope. Should you have any queries, please contact the HGT office or the event organiser. Thank you.

2 centre. Hortus Loci is a nursery providing inspiration and new ideas. Coffee and tea on arrival and a light lunch will be served by the HOBO Company and is included in the cost of the visit.

Walhampton School colonnade by Thomas Mawson. Other features include a serpentine canal, three lakes, a climbable prospect mount, period former banana house and orangery, a fountain, rockery and a fascinating shell grotto. Our very Hortus Loci knowledgeable guide will be David Hill, Hortus Loci Programme a long term member of the teaching 11.00 Arrive at Hortus Loci for staff. HGT Reference: http:// guided tour of the nursery research.hgt.org.uk/item/hordle-walhampton- 12.30 Lunch served school/

Depart at your leisure Walhampton School Programme 11.00 Arrival with coffee or tea Thursday 12th April taken in the School Hall Morning self-drive 11.15 Guided tour of the gardens Walhampton School, Lymington, 12.30 Depart Hampshire For a lunch suggestion, there is an Members: £12.00 Guests: £15.00 excellent pub, the Walhampton Arms, Organiser: Leslie Shaw 01962 841592 next to the school. And, while in the area why not enjoy an afternoon in By kind permission of The Headmaster Lymington, with its characterful

The gardens of this school are of buildings, shops and quayside? particular historic interest and have been recommended to us by the HGT Friday 11th May Research Group. Although in largely Full day coach visit 18th Century English landscape style, Michael Heseltine’s Garden, Thenford there are areas of more ornamental Gardens & Arboretum, Thenford, Arts & Crafts design. The Italian terrace Banbury, Oxfordshire and sunken garden was designed by Members & Guests: £42.00 Harold Peto, who was also thought to Organiser: Leslie Shaw 01962 841592 be responsible for the Roman Arch and By kind permission of Lord & Lady Heseltine layout of the Glade. There is a

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The Heseltines purchased the house Thenford Practicalities and garden in 1976. Over the next We will be taking a 15 minute break en 25 years they restored 40 acres of route at Tot Hill Services, a chance to buy woodland, the 18th century walled some refreshments. Tea/coffee/cakes will garden and medieval fishponds. Advice be available to purchase in the Church was sought from Lanning Roper, Sir Barn at Thenford where there are also Harold Hillier, Roy Lancaster and Keith washroom facilities. Rushford. The 70 acre arboretum now features a collection of more than Please note: the terrain can be quite 3,000 different trees and shrubs, rough in parts and is not suitable for the together with extensive herbaceous less sure footed. Sensible footwear should borders, water gardens, an alpine be worn. trough garden, a sculpture garden, a rose garden and a rill. The medieval Wednesday 20 June 2018 fish ponds, their interconnecting canal Full-day self-drive to include light lunch and the existing lake have been Rooksnest, , restored and 2 new ones added. An Hungerford and Stockcross House, 18th century avenue of mature yews Newbury, Berkshire has also been restored to its former Members: £30.00 Guests: £35.00 grandeur. Although not open to the Organiser: Helen Parsons 07970 328623 public, visits to the garden are permitted on a limited number of days Rooksnest is beautiful English 10-acre for organised groups. This will be a garden created with the long-term rare opportunity to see an exceptional involvement of Arabella Lennox-Boyd. garden. Very much a family garden, there are a number of contrasting areas surrounding the house . Visiting in June, we should enjoy the romantic herbaceous borders at their peak. There are wilder areas and plantings transitioning to the rural estate beyond, as well as a vegetable garden and glasshouses, pond garden and orchard. Following an introduction from the head Thenford Gardens & Arboretum gardener, Kevin Jordan, we will be free to Thenford Programme wander at our own pace. 11.00 Depart 24 West Street, Fareham (by Cafe Tusk) 11.45 Depart St Catherine’s Park & Ride, Garnier Road, Winchester 12.15 Arrive Tot Hill Services, A34 12.30 Depart Tot Hill Services 14.00 Arrive Thenford Gardens 16.30 Depart Thenford 18.00 Arrive Tot Hill Services 18.45 Arr St Catherine’s P&R Winchester Rooksnest 19.30 Arrive West Street, Fareham 4

Stockcross House is a former rectory with Monday 9 July 2018 a two acre garden. It features generous Half-day self-drive lawns and borders, a large pond, West Woodhay House and Gardens, cascade, reflecting pool, orangery, small Nr Newbury, Berkshire stumpery, a vegetable and cutting garden Members: £22.00 Guests: £25.00 with some interesting gates and Organiser: Mary Martyn 07814 461830 sculptural elements throughout. Planting is romantic in some areas, with roses, By kind permission of Mr & Mrs Henderson wisteria and climbers trained over a long pergola and walls throughout the garden, The Inigo Jones house was built in 1635 becoming more naturalistic in others. and purchased by the Henderson We will have an introduction on arrival family in 1920. With remarkable views to from the head gardener and there will be the Downs, and an extraordinary range the option to be taken around as a group of soils from acid clay to chalk, this place or make your own way (we are welcome has enabled Harry and Sarah Henderson to speak to the gardeners working in the to commission a range of new schemes, garden if we have any queries). from arboreta and lakes to rose gardens and borders, and a garden to celebrate Please note: We haven’t arranged any the London Olympics and Harry’s 60th further beverages here as we should be birthday! The intensively planted walled well-fed and watered after Rooksnest. garden was designed as a cutting garden but is also massively productive. Head gardener Pete Jackman was born and raised in West Woodhay and continues to develop the gardens in his own way and more recently, inspired by Angel Collins is creating the planting scheme for a small Italianate garden which was designed by Veronica Mackinnon, inspired by Iford Manor and gardens in Stockcross House Italy, which Harry and Sarah had fallen in love with on their travels. Harry will also Rooksnest and Stockcross House give us a tour of the house and talk on Programme its history. 10.30 Arrive at Rooksnest for tea, coffee and cake 12.30 Light lunch at Rooksnest quiche and salad, cake, tea or coffee 2.30 Arrive at Stockcross House 4.30 Depart

West Woodhay House and Gardens

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West Woodhay Programme 10.15 Arrive at West Woodhay for Save the Date

tea or coffee 10.30 Divide into 2 groups - one to Tuesday 4th September visit House and one to visit Full-day self-drive garden; changeover at 11.30 Knoll Gardens, Wimborne 12.30 Depart & Cranborne Manor, Cranborne, East Dorset

Tuesday 11th September News from the Morning self-drive HGT Research Group Woolstone Mill House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire HGT Research Group have completed and published their survey of the public parks of Havant District. This is Other News latest stage in recording the changes that have taken place in Hampshire’s We are delighted to announce that public parks since an HCC survey of we will be organising a tour of the 1997. The budget pressures facing magnificent St Giles House, local authorities have made it difficult Wimborne St Giles, East Dorset in to maintain funding and maintenance late Summer. for our public parks. So it is good to record that Waterlooville Recreation Ground is “an exceptionally well maintained thriving park, popular with all ages and members of society….It is an important green breathing space in a very built up urban area.” The post-war pocket parks of Leigh Park, created at the same time as the surrounding housing estates are of little historical merit but they provide St Giles House vital green spaces and an important community facility within densely populated areas. These are now under Hampshire Gardens Trust Jermyns House, Jermyns Lane, Ampfield development pressure: we found that Hampshire SO51 0QA one has already been built on. tel: 01794 367752 email: [email protected] web: www.hgt.org.uk Sally Miller facebook: The Hampshire Gardens Trust Chair, Research Group twitter: @hantsgardens registered charity no: 1165985

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