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Bramdean House tel: 01962 771214 Area: Hampshire |
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| Visitor Information | -- email: victoria {at} bramdeanhouse.com | |||||||||||
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Bramdean House |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||||||||
14th Feb, 14th March, 11th April, 13th June, 11th July, 8th August, 12th September. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Weekdays only 10am - 4pm |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes 14 Feb, 14 March, 11 April, 13 June, 11 July, 8 August, 12 September Other dates by appointment only. Time: 2pm - 5pm. |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: April , June, July |
To
see: Spring Bulbs, walk down kitchen garden, collection of sweet peas, herbaceous borders, unusual plants and bulbs |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||||||||
| By appointment on weekdays. Adult £ 4.50 per head. NGS Days £ 3.50; Child free |
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| Onsite Facilities | ||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: No |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: No Picnics: No |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: No |
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| Other
Facilities: Teas only on NGS Days, plants for sales sometimes on NGS days. Limited access for disabled. |
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| Garden Features | ||||||||||||
| Collection of sweet peas, paeonies, tender nerines. Featured in new book by Andrew Lawson/Ursula Buchan "The English Garden". Written up in "Kitchen Garden" May 2009 |
English Heritage Garden Grade: II | |||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Victoria Wakefield |
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| This is a real plantsman s garden, full of interest all year round, and especially from April until October. The fine eighteenth-century red-brick house is protected from the road by a vast undulating cloud hedge of yew and box. Behind the house five acres of garden slope up through the exemplary mirror-image herbaceous borders, planted with over one hundred genera and reaching their peak in June with nepetas, geraniums, tradescantias, Clematix x diversifolia 'Hendersonii' and galegas, followed by yellows and then the russets of late summer. The way forward towards dianthus and roses, leads to the wrought-iron gates of the walled kitchen garden, filled with a well-ordered abundance of fruit and vegetables, a special collection of old-fashioned sweet peas and a mass of herbaceous flowers. Beyond a second wrought-iron gate lies the orchard with its curving tapestry hedge of alternating box and yew, flowering cherries, and fruit trees underplanted with daffodils. Trees on the eastern side include Ginko biloba, Maytenus boaria, Liriodendron tulipifera and Davidia involucrata, magnolias and fine specimens of Staphylea colchica AGM. Spring brings to the garden carpets of aconites, crocuses and other early bulbs, autumn a large collection of tender and hardy nerines. | ||||||||||||
| History of Garden | ||||||||||||
| Mrs Wakefield's parents purchased the house and the garden in 1944. They have photographic records of the garden in the late 1800's and early 20th century. It has evolved through time and events. The soil is very alkaline (PH8) . It has been featured in many gardening books and articles, most recently by Robin Lane Fox in the Financial Times. It will be featured in the BBC "Flying Gardeners" programme in April 2003. | ||||||||||||
| Nearby Hampshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | ||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Hotel du Vin, Winchester Royal Hotel, Winchester Wessex Hotel, Winchester |
Restaurants: Various good restaurants in Winchester |
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| Inns & Pubs: Fox Inn, Bramdean Globe on the Lake, Alresford The Milburys, Beauworth |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Alresford 4 Miles Winchester 9 Miles |
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