Facilities: 
Refreshments: Home-made teas

Contact: Mr & Mrs H Wakefield   Telephone: 01962 771214
Email: victoria@bramdeanhouse.com

Postcode: SO24 0JU
Location: 4m S of Alresford.  In centre of village on A272
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Opening dates and times: Suns 14 Feb; 14 Mar; 11 Apr; 13 June; 11 July; 8 Aug; 12 Sept (2-5); Sun 20 Feb 2011.

Admission: Adm £4, chd free

Description: Traditional 6-acre garden on chalk, famous for mirror-image herbaceous borders. Carpets of bulbs, especially snowdrops, in the spring. Very many unusual plants incl collection of old-fashioned sweet peas and hardy/tender nerines. 1-acre kitchen garden featuring prizewinning vegetables, fruit and flowers
Group visits by arrangement, not weekends, £6 per person
In the press: Featured in 'Hampshire Magazine', 'Hampshire Society' & 'Kitchen Garden'

Further details: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.