Wisley Garden

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This garden provides a wonderful contemporary reference for garden design and plantsmanship. This wonderful 240 acre garden at Wisley is the largest of four botanical gardens in England owned by the members of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). Everything here is immaculate and up-to-date with labels to identify plants and trees. The latest garden equipment, techniques and plant hybrids are trialled and results are published monthly in the Society's lavishly produced colour magazine. Originally established as the Oakwood Experimental Garden from 1878, the garden was bought and presented to the RHS in 1902. The garden has never stood still and is continually being renewed and developed to designs and plantings by acknowledged leaders in garden design. A members' library, laboratory, glasshouses, trial gardens, woodland, an enormous rockery, herbaceous borders, rose gardens, fruit cages and just about every other aspect of horticulture are covered. The garden will delight and inspire in any season of the year. It is full of ideas and information. There is always part of the garden at its best. The shop offers as large a collection of books on gardening as anywhere in the world. The plant centre not only sells a wide selection of plants but is also staffed to provide professional advice on the full gamut of gardening issues. www.sisley.co.uk

5 / 5 Review by expert member Tony Sissons