The garden at Great Dixter is in the arts and crafts style, featuring topiary, an orchard and wild flower meadow with a handsome 15th century house at its heart.
Open: 1 April – 28 October. Tuesday to Sunday and bank holiday Mondays. 11am to 5pm
Admission: Adult £8.25, child £4.40
Find out more: www.greatdixter.co.uk

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The flagship garden of the Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley captures the imagination with richly planted borders, luscious rose gardens and a state-of-the-art glasshouse. This is a working garden where cultivation techniques are tested and a series of model gardens address the needs of a variety of conditions and circumstances
Open: Daily except Christmas Day. 10am to 6pm Monday to Friday. 9am to 6pm Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays.
Admission: RHS members free, Adult £11.55, child £4.95
Find out more:  www.rhs.org.uk/Gardens/Wisley

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One of Britain’s greatest ornamental gardens, the Savill garden never fails to charm visitors who come to explore the 35 acres of contemporary and classically designed gardens and exotic woodland. Created in the 1930s by Sir Eric Savill, features include a rose garden, opened in 2010, which takes a contemporary approach to displaying roses.
Open: Daily 10am to 6pm, except Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Admission: Adult £8.50, child £3.75
Find out more: www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/landscape/savillgarden

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Beth Chatto started work on her garden in 1960 gradually transforming an overgrown wasteland with poor gravel soil and boggy hollows into an informal garden harmonising with the surrounding countryside. Beth’s garden is a master class in how to grow plants in difficult conditions
Open: Daily 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm Sunday
Admission: Adult £6, accompanied children under 14 free
Find out more: http://www.bethchatto.co.uk

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Created by Lionel de Rothschild in the 1920's, Exbury reflects nature’s changing moods across 200 acres of gardens and woodland. Best time to visit is early May when the rhododendrons and azaleas are in full bloom
Open: Daily 10am to 5pm
Admission: Adult £14, child £4
Find out more: www.exbury.co.uk

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Dating from the 17th century, the gardens at Hatfield House have evolved into a gardener’s paradise. Visitors can enjoy the peace of the West Garden with its scented plants and fountains and view the famous Knot garden adjoining the Elizabethan Old Palace.
Open: West Garden Tuesday to Sunday, East Garden Wednesdays only, 11am to 5pm
Admission: Adult £9.50, child £5
Find out more: www.hatfield-house.co.uk

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Nestling in the microclimate of The Undercliff, Ventnor Botanic Garden has a subtropical and exotic plant collection unrivalled in the UK.  Plants which would normally be found in protected glasshouses thrive and naturalise in geographical plantings based on the Mediterannean zones of the world.   
Open: Daily 10am to 5pm
Admission: Free
Find out more: www.botanic.co.uk

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Sissinghurst’s beautiful garden was first laid out by novelist Vita Sackville-West and her diplomat husband Harold Nicolson in the 1930’s. The gardens surround the remains of an Elizabethan mansion. Don’t miss the delightful kitchen garden and delicate white garden.
Open: Times and days vary. Refer to website before you travel
Admission: Adult £11.50, child £5.50
Find out more:  www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle

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Set in the High Weald with splendid views, this garden is a series of experimental designs with spectacular planting and beauty all year. Both a horticulturalist's dream and a peaceful country garden, it is easy to lose yourself in its intimate and surprising corners.
Open: Daily 10am to 5pm. Closed 25 to 31 December
Admission: Adult £10, child £5
Find out more:  www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nymans

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One of the most famous gardens of them all, The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is first and foremost a scientific institution with collections of both living and preserved plants. Stroll round the beautifully landscaped gardens or warm up in the famous glasshouse, home to the world’s tallest indoor plant.
Open: Daily 9.30am till dusk, except 24 and 25 December
Admission: Adult £13.90, child free
Find out more: www.kew.org

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