Holehird Gardens

(See also Windermere)

Holehird Gardens, 1½ miles from Windermere, sit on a hillside at the southern end of Troutbeck valley. Beatrix Potter stayed here with her family in the summers of 1885 and 1889. The ten acres of gardens sit on a hillside at the southern end of the Troutbeck valley and provide spectacular views across the lake to the fells beyond.

A walled kitchen garden, rock garden, orchard, heathers and shrubs make for a peaceful stroll. The garden has a national collection of astilbes, hydrangeas and polystichum ferns.

Holehird mansion, a Grade II listed building on the site, now serves as a nursing home.

Holehird Gardens,
Patterdale Road
2 miles north of Windermere, on A592
Lakeland Horticultural Society
Open daily, sunrise-sunset, free
Tel. 01539 46008
For a full directory of the plants go to their website: www.holehirdgardens.org.uk

Photos courtesy of Graeme Dougal

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