Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire (formerly Arboretum) is open all year and offers 180 acres of beauty, inspiration and discovery.

Over 42,000 plants from temperate regions around the world grow in a variety of themed landscapes. An idyllic venue for special occasions, civil ceremonies, weddings and conferences. Events and exhibitions all year round. Excellent restaurant and summer tea rooms. Family friendly. Free entry for children.

Visitors to the Gardens will find something to interest them throughout the year. During the frosty days of January, the perfume of the witch hazels' strange spidery flowers filters through the Gardens, and gradually change to the flamboyant blooms of the spring flowering camellias, magnolias, rhododendrons and azaleas. These are followed by the heady scents of summer's flowering shrubs and herbaceous plants before the autumn season of fiery hues.

In 1997 the Gardens were included by English Heritage on the Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England for the value of the plant collections. These collections continue to be enhanced and developed, and now boast the largest Winter Garden of its kind in Europe, and the Gurkha Memorial Garden with an extensive collection of Nepalese plants.

If you've had fun on your family day out to Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, tell us about it your visit, so other people will know it's a great place to go as well.

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/hilliergardens