Recommended Gardens Selected by the RHS for 2010 www.rhs.org.uk A GUIDE TO FREE ACCESS FOR RHS MEMBERS The RHS, the UK’s leading gardening charity Contents Frequently RHS Gardens Asked Questions www.rhs.org.uk/gardens 3 Frequently Asked Questions As well as the four RHS – ❋ ❋ owned gardens (Wisley, RHS Garden Harlow Carr RHS Garden Hyde Hall Crag Lane, Harrogate, North Yorkshire Buckhatch Lane, Rettendon, Chelmsford, Hyde Hall, Harlow Carr and 3 RHS Gardens HG3 1QB Tel: 01423 565418 Essex CM3 8AT Tel: 01245 400256 Rosemoor), the RHS has 4 Recommended Gardens for 2010 teamed up with 147 Joint Member 1 gardens around the UK and 6 Scotland Membership No 12345678 23 overseas independently © RHS 12 North West owned gardens which are Mr A Joint generously offering free 15 North East access to RHS Members Expires End Jul-10 © RHS / Jerry Harpur (one member per policy), 20 East Anglia either throughout their * opening season or at Completely in tune with its Yorkshire RHS Garden Hyde Hall provides an oasis 23 South East selected periods. setting, Harlow Carr embodies the of peace and tranquillity with sweeping 31 South West For a full list tick ‘free access for RHS Members’ rugged honesty of its host region panoramas, big open skies and far on www.rhs.org.uk/rhsgardenfinder/gardenfinder.asp whilst championing environmental reaching views. The 360-acre estate 39 Central awareness and sustainability. integrates fluidly into the surrounding Dominated by water, stone and farmland, meadows and woodland, 46 Wales How are the gardens chosen? woodland, its innovative design and providing a gateway to the countryside Who can gain free entry? Whether formal landscape, late creative planting provide a beautiful where you can watch the changing ✔ RHS members with an asterisk 50 Northern Ireland season borders or woodland, all and tranquil place for meeting friends, seasons and get closer to nature. Hyde ( ) on the front of your * Recommended Gardens offer gathering fresh ideas or bringing the Hall is a garden to be enjoyed by membership card – see above. 51 Channel Islands inspiration to keen gardeners through family for a leisurely stroll. people of all ages and from all walks of ✔ All Individual Members high standards of design and/or Open: All year, except Christmas Day, life, providing a fabulous day out. 52 Overseas ✔ IMPORTANT: for membership planting. Many are well known, some 9.30am-6pm (4pm in winter), last entry Open: All year, except Christmas Day, types with two adults (for example, less so resulting in a mix of styles 1 hr before closing. 10am. Closing times vary between Joint), free entry applies to one from the formal and grand, to the 6pm mid-summer to 4pm mid-winter – cardholder per policy informal and domestic. contact the garden for details. Last entry (“Member 1”) as indicated by an 1 hour before closing. Key to garden symbols asterisk (*) on the front of your When can I gain free entry? membership card. Disabled access/ Events The free entry periods vary between 1 Gardens open free ❋ ✖ Guests: free entry to to Individual members facilities programme gardens; please check before Recommended Gardens is not ❋ ❋ throughout their open travelling. RHS Garden Rosemoor RHS Garden Wisley applicable to guests. period (with map Guide dogs only Plant sales You will need your membership card Great Torrington, Devon EX38 8PH Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB ✖ Group entry: So that smaller reference) (or yellow ‘temporary membership’ Tel: 01805 624067 Tel: 0845 260 9000 gardens can be part of the scheme, Gardens open free to Group bookings form) to gain entry. 3 Restaurant free entry does not apply to Individual members welcome during selected periods members travelling as part of an organised group. What facilities are available © RHS (with map reference) Parking Shop See entry for details Please contact the garden in at each garden? advance to discuss group visits. A key to the symbols alongside each © Stephen Record Refreshments RHS For more information please garden entry can be found on p2. Gardens refer to the back of your membership card. Special Event Day: Some gardens do not offer free access RHS Garden Rosemoor is an enchanting Whatever the season, with over 200 All details including opening times are correct at time of going to press. on special event days (such as NGS). 65 acre garden of year-round interest. acres to explore, Wisley is a Please check before travelling. Please call ahead. With Formal and Informal Gardens, wonderful day out. For more than For a selection of RHS Recommended including two Rose Gardens, a Fruit and 100 years the garden has been a For an alternative format of this leaflet please call Events in your area call: Vegetable Garden and a Winter Garden centre of gardening excellence, with 0845 062 1111 or log on to: as well as Woodlands and a beautiful RHS expertise demonstrated at every 0845 062 1111, text phone 18001 020 7834 4333 www.rhs.org.uk/rhseventfinder Lake, Rosemoor has something for corner. Whether it is the stunning or email [email protected] or refer to the bimonthly Events everyone. Over 80 events are also held displays in the Glasshouse, the glories booklet in the middle of The Garden. throughout the year for all the family. of the Mixed Borders, the colour of Credits All this and much more besides ensures early spring bulbs or the variety in Design: Carolyn Maile © Royal Horticultural Society 2010 Thinking of becoming that Rosemoor is a place that people the Fruit and Trials Fields, there is Printed by: McLays Printers, Cardiff, UK 80 Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PE a member? return to time and again for ideas, always something to inspire Cover image: Tatton Park Japanese Garden RHS Registered Charity No: 222879/SCO38262 Free access to the RHS Recommended inspiration or to enjoy a marvellous whenever you visit. © George Littler www.rhs.org.uk Gardens is one of many benefits of day out. Open: All year, except Christmas Day, supporting the charitable work of the Open: All year, except Christmas Day, Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm, Sat–Sun, 9am–6pm All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, issued, adapted or transmitted in part or in whole in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher and the relevant subsidiary Alison Higgs RHS. Refer to the back cover and Apr–Sept, 10am–6pm, Oct–Mar, (4.30pm 31 Oct–Feb), last entry 1 hour copyright holders. Breaches of copyright may lead to prosecution and claims for damages. Arley Hall, Cheshire inside back cover for more details. 10am–5pm, last entry 1 hour before closing. before closing. 2 | Recommended Gardens for 2010 RHS Gardens | 3 4 | Recommended Gardens for 2010 RHS Recommended Gardens 7 Key to the map Key to the regions 4 Free access 1 East throughout Scotland 15 opening period Anglia Aberdeen Free access Northern South during selected Ireland West periods North South RHS Gardens West East North 18 6 Wales 20 5 East 2 17 12 3 Channel 14 Central Islands 9 13 8 31 11 16 140 32 142 10 19 141 24 41 . Middlesbrough 37 143 27 45 42 35 25 38 40 43 34 36 44 33 47 39 46 21 30 22 123 130 26 28 29 51 117 23 138 134 139 116 126 128 111 58 112 61 53 56 57 109 54 55 132 60 50 108 124 119 125 48 62 113 114 115 131 118 122 52 110 129 120 59 81 121 65 49 137 135 136 64 82 72 Swansea 127 . 80 Cardiff 133 . 68 98 91 102 86 74 77 71 107 73 103 96 75 78 89 88 93 97 95 94 70 76 66 92 83 100 69 67 101 79 99 90 85 84 Recommended Gardens for 2010 | 106 87 104 144 145 105 5 Recommended Gardens for 2010 it is an eclectic garden, rooted firmly in the Italian style with its fountains, Recommended Gardens terracing, urns and statuary, and © Derek Hosie dominant box hedge parterre resembling the St Andrew’s Cross with a sundial at its centre. A strong north-south axis leads down the These gardens offer free access to RHS Members impressive flight of steps to the (one member per policy) either throughout their open period sundial, kitchen garden, woodland or during selected times of the year. and surrounding hillside. Free Access (Member 1 only): applies Please check all details carefully before travelling. May, Sept & Oct. Open: Easter weekend and May–Oct, Branklyn also holds National Plant Cawdor Castle Gardens, Highland daily, 1–6pm (last admission 5pm). SCOTLAND Collections of Cassiope and Lilium (Mylnefield lilies). ●4 Cawdor Castle Gardens Free Access (Member 1 only): applies Cawdor Castle, Nairn, Highland IV12 5RD throughout open period. Tel: 01667 404401 Fax: 01667 404674 Open: For 2010 prices and times please Web: www.cawdorcastle.com see the website. © Downfield Studio © Abraichan Gardens Cawdor Castle, the most romantic castle in the Highlands, is the 14th- century home of the Thanes of Abriachan Gardens, by Inverness Cawdor. It has three gardens to be ●1 ❋ Abriachan Gardens enjoyed: the earliest dating from the © National Trust for Scotland Loch Ness Side, by Inverness IV3 8LA 16th century with the symbolic Dundee University Botanic Garden, Dundee Tel: 01463 861232 Fax: 01463 861232 gardens and maze; an 18th-century Flower Garden with large herbaceous 6 Web: www.lochnessgarden.com Branklyn Gardens, Perth ● Dundee University borders and roses; and a 19th-century Botanic Garden ●3 ❋ Cambo Gardens Wild Garden with a good collection of University of Dundee, rhododendrons and spring bulbs as Kingsbarns, St Andrews, Fife KY16 8QD Riverside Drive, Dundee DD2 1QH These unique gardens on the shores well as splendid trees.