Bramdean House


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Garden Name: Bramdean House
Last Modified (we set this): 10-2-2013
Garden ID (we set this): 0218

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Garden Owner: Mr and Mrs Wakefield
Address:
Bramdean
Alresford


Postcode: SO24 0JU
County: Hampshire
Country:

tel: 01962 771214
fax: 01962 771095

website: 

public email: victoria //at// bramdeanhouse.com
admin / private email: (add here for GG-only usage)

group master website:

English Heritage Grade (I, II, II*): II


Opening Days & Times:
Sundays 17 Feb 2-4pm, Sundays April 21, June 16, July 21 andAug18 2-4.30 and Sunday Sept 15 2-4p.m


Parties / Coaches (Yes/No): Yes
Parties / Coaches Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment (Yes/No): Yes
Viewing by Appointment Comments: Weekdays only, please call.

House Open for Viewing (Yes/No): No
House Open Comments/Dates/Times: 

National/Scotland Garden Scheme days (Yes/No): Yes
NGS/SGS Comments (PLEASE include DATES and Times):
Sundays 17 Feb 2-4pm, Sundays April 21, June 16, July 21 andAug18 2-4.30 and Sunday Sept 15 2-4p.m


Best Times of Year to Visit:
April, June, July, Sept

...To see (pair by line with Best times to visit):
Spring Bulbs, walk down kitchen garden, collection of sweet peas, herbaceous borders, unusual plants and bulbs


Admission Prices:
By appointment on weekdays. Adult £6 per head.NGS Days £4; Child free


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Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes

Shop: No
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes

Teas: No
Refreshments: No
Picnics: Yes

Dogs allowed: No
Only on Lead: No
Events: No

Other Facilities or Comments on (Yes/No) items above:
Teas only on NGS Days, plants for sales sometimes on NGS days. Limited access for disabled.


Special Features, Events/Dates and other comments:
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 2009Featured in Country Life June 2011. .Boxwood castle.NEW small arboretum with wild flowers,


National Collection:  

Garden Designer: Victoria Wakefield
Description of Garden:
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.


Garden History:
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.


Local Inns (name, town):
Fox Inn, BramdeanGlobe on the Lake, AlresfordThe Milburys, Beauworth

Accommodation (name, town):
Hotel du Vin, WinchesterRoyal Hotel, WinchesterWessex Hotel, Winchester

Restaurants (name, town):
Various good restaurants in Winchester

Village/Town/Sightseeing:
Alresford 4 MilesWinchester 9 Miles