The award wining Sir Harold Hillier Gardens is famous the world over. In
1977 Sir Harold left the Gardens under the sole trusteeship of
Hampshire County Council. It is now run as a charity under the remit of
horticulture, conservation, education and recreation. Among its
outstanding features are the splendour of the seasonal planting displays
set in 180 acres.
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens are world famous holding the largest
collection of hardy trees and shrubs in the world. The Gardens is
renowned for its collection of rare plants, hiding around every bend is a
tree or a shrub that perhaps you have never seen. It was with the purpose of saving the UK’s rare garden plants that the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, now called the Plant Heritage was established and under their auspices as of 2014 the Gardens now holds 14 National Plant Collections:
- Carpinus (hornbeams)
- Cercidiphyllum (katsura tree)
- Cornus (dogwoods)
- Corylus (hazels)
- Cotoneaster
- Hamamelis (witch hazels)
- Hillier Plants
- Hypericum
- Ligustrum (privets)
- Lithocarpus (stone or tanbark oak)
- Metasequoia (dawn redwood)
- Photinia (Christmas berry)
- Pinus (pines)
- Quercus (oaks)
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