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Winter opening times: Gardens open 10am, last admissions 4pm. Gardens close (main gates locked) 5pm. Pavilion Restaurant opens 10am and closes 4.30pm.
Seasonal Highlights at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Hampshire
Unusual Australian Beauty
The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens is currently seeing the full flowering of a new Australian plant for the first time since it was planted out. Banksia integrifolia ssp. monticola, also known as the Coast Banksia or the Australian White Honeysuckle, is a shrubby tree only found in Australia and Tasmania. It is only hardy in mild locations of the UK and therefore not commonly grown outside. When it grows well, it produces its flower-heads, the size of a large cotton reel, in early winter.
Banksia is one of the most famous plant groups known from Australia. Its flowers are often pollinated by birds and small mammals. Its seed cones are very hard and mostly designed to survive fire. The flower colour of the genus varies from white to shades of green and brown, orange and bright red.
Seed that produced our plant was collected in Tasmania almost 9 years ago. It was collected at 1200 meter altitude, thus our plant is expected to be more cold hardy than some others. Seed was collected from a 6 meter tall plant.
The plant is outside Jermyns House
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Forthcoming Event Highlight:
Our World Through the Lens - Photography Exhibition
Thursday 6th November - Sunday 7th December
Stunning purchasable photographic exhibition of our wonderful world, featuring some of Hampshire's finest photographers.
For more details of the exhibition visit "Our Would Through the Lens"
Free admission
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