E-mail:info@spinnersgarden.co.uk
Tel: 01590 673347
Contact: Peter Chappell
Address: Spinners, School Lane, Boldre, Hampshire, SO41 5QE
How to find us:Follow the brown signs off the A337 between Brockenhurst and Lymington.
Opening Times: 10am - 5 pm Tues-Sat April1 to 14 September. Nursery and part of garden open all year but only by appointment in December and January.
Admission: £3.00 from 1 April to 1st September, free at other times. RHS members free at all times.
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A woodland garden on a slope overloooking the Lymington River valley, with Rhododendrons, Magnolias, Camellias, Japanese Maples, Hydrangeas and other rare shrubs, interplanted with a wide variety of choice woodland and ground cover plants.
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RHS Comments: Only two acres, but what a garden! Spinners is a plantsman's paradise, where the enthusiast can spend many happy hours browsing at any time of the year. The habitat plantings and plant associations are particularly interesting to study. Much of the garden is light woodland, so it has good collections of hydrangeas, lilies, hostas, rodgersias and ferns. Peter Chappell's nursery sells an extraordinary range of good plants: you always come away with a bootful of novelties. Trilliums are one of the nursery's specialities. The list of magnolias is perhaps even more impressive: over 80 cultivars, including a great range of {M. acuminata} hybrids, Gresham hybrids and the new {M. stellata} × {liliiflora} hybrids, as well as such introductions as {M.} × {loebneri} 'Pirouette' and {M.} × {loebneri} 'Donna'. |
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