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Last  Week's  Photographs

  Along the Banks of the River's Alre and Itchen
  Photographs: Monday 10 September 2007
~~~~~~~~~~ Sir Harold Hillier Gardens - Art Exhibition ~~~~~~~~~~
HampshireCam will be on hold for the next few weeks as we're away, the
NEXT UPDATE should be on the 24th September.
 

For those of you who missed last years images I'll repeat the same introduction. The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens a few miles north of Romsey are named in memory of their founder, the late Sir Harold Hillier. With more than 42,000 plants - 12,500 different types - this unique collection extends over 180 acres and is said to contain the greatest collection of hardy trees and shrubs in the world. English Heritage now includes the gardens in the Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England for the value of the plant collections. In 1997 nearly twenty-five years after the first plantings, Sir Harold gave his plant collection to Hampshire County Council to be held by them as a charitable trust.

All photographs © David Packman

 

New for this year, the Oak Leaf Shelter is situated by the pond. The shelter was opened in May by the Gardens' Patron Lord Sainsbury and Iain Rushbrook Chairman of Hampshire's Help the Aged.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A beautifully marked Peacock butterfly.


 

 

 

 

The artful and the real thing. One of the exhibits in this years "Art in the Garden 2007", and below a Common Darter giving it a close inspection.

 

All photographs © David Packman


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