Your favourite garden
Solentman
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I was lucky as my job took me all over the world and when I had time off I would visit as many local gardens as possible.
From all of these two remain firm favourites, in the UK Great Dixter and in Italy Ninfa
Ninfa is about 40 miles south-east of Rome. Known mostly to garden enthusiasts getting to it can be a challenge, if you don't have a car, but the garden is worth the effort.
If you do want to go here it now has very limited opening and you have to go on a guided tour not always in English.
http://www.fondazionecaetani.org/visita_ninfa.php
Great Dixter I think every body knows of this in East Sussex in the UK and planted in that way Christopher had in his words
"The borders are mixed, not herbaceous. I see no point in segregating plants of differing habit or habits. They can all help one another. So you’ll see shrubs, climbers, hardy and tender perennials, annuals and biennials, all growing together and contributing to the overall tapestry".
That really says it all. http://www.greatdixter.co.uk/
So that's mine how about you ?
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As my picture , Monets garden .
hazel, technically a "herbaceous" border had nothing but herbaceous plants in it.
A mixed border has them , but can also have annuals, shrubs , trees etc.
No one for Monet ?
For my it`s the Chelsea physic garden
i went there last year on the hottest day of 2016 when it reached 90F
it`s such a beautiful garden & well worth a visit & also Barnsdale (Geoff Hamiltons garden)
Inverewe Gardens, not because they are the best gardens, but because of the location. They are surrounded by sea on 3 sides, and by the mountains of the NW. highlands.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Great Dixter is my favourite, but also Walmer castle gardens and Mount Ephraim near Faversham Kent as the setting is wonderful, as are the gardens, the walled garden is lovely and they sell good size plants at very reasonable prices
Gt Dixter for me
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.