HAMPSHIRE
Patrick Daniell’s
transformed organic garden
by Vivienne Lewis
GARDENS
TO VISIT IN
HAMPSHIRE
Get out and about this spring and visit some Hampshire While serving in Oman Patrick Daniell worked out his plan
gardens opening for the new season – and be inspired by the for the garden by drawing his designs in the desert sand. He
stories of how unkempt or even abandoned gardens have wanted to retain the old character of the place, with a new
been transformed into gardens on anyone’s ‘must-see’ list. garden that blended in with the countryside and the (to be
extended) cottage.
The garden designer who most influenced him was Brenda
Crowe, whose books advocate simple but most effective
designs for small gardens. Although this garden of one and
a half acres is not small but today’s standards, it has several
enclosures and any of these could be adapted as a single
garden in a small area.
For details of Patrick Daniell’s book go to the website.
Location: Abbey Cottage, Itchen Abbas, Hampshire PO21 1BN.
2 1/2 milesW of Alresford on B3047 between Kingworthy and
Alresfod, ½ mile E of the Trout Inn at Itchen Abbas.
Open: for NGS on Easter Monday, 5th April, and Sunday
11th April, also Sunday & Bank Holiday Monday 29th & 30th
Abbey Cottage, Itchen Abbas
August. For Macmillan Cancer Support, on Sunday 18th
April. All openings are from 12 noon – 5pm. Admission: £3,
If you use the internet, visit the webpage on Abbey Cottage
children free. Refreshments and home made teas.
and read about the influences on Patrick Daniell which made
him go about transforming the unkempt garden around the
Website:
www.abbeycottage.com
cottage when he arrived there in 1976.
Alternatively, read his book My Garden is Your Garden, the
title adapted from the old Arab greeting of hospitality, ‘My
Home is Your Home’. Or just go and visit this organic garden
within the walls of an eighteenth century kitchen garden
and see how it has been created.
It is open for the NGS on certain days this year, starting with
Easter Monday, 5th April, and there is a special opening for
Macmillan Cancer Support on 18th April.
The contrasting enclosures have plenty of structure, with
steps, lawns, shrubs giving colour throughout the year. There
is also an adjoining meadow with plenty of colour at this
Abbey Cottage – the garden has plenty of structure, with steps, lawns,
time of year in the spring bulbs among a plantation of native
shrubs giving colour throughout the year. The adjoining meadow is
wild trees, and later on there are summer wild flowers. about to burst into colour with spring bulbs among a plantation of
native wild trees .
Apple Court, near Lymington
Not only is there a series of lovely garden areas to walk through
at Apple Court, but at the end of the visit you can take home a
plant seen in the garden and available in the nursery.
Successive areas of this former kitchen garden delight
visitors at different times of the year. The winter walk has
been planted to give colour even in the darkest days of
winter, with Cornus ‘Midwinter Sun’, red leaved bergenias
and the skeletons of grasses providing contrast.
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