Garden visit: High Beeches

High Beeches Gardens, near Handcross, West Sussex, are looking amazing at the moment. This is definitely the best time to see them.

Garden visit: High Beeches

It's belting down with rain here in West Sussex so I'm glad I grabbed the chance to whizz around High Beeches while the sun was shining on Saturday.
Although it's late in the year, I found a magnolia and rhododendrons still in flower along with trees getting their autumn colour.
Here are some mobile phone snaps..

Gardens Visit: High Beeches

 

The weather this summer has meant that I have not spent much time visiting gardens – instead I have been occupied with helping my own plot survive the deluge. 

I've not been 100% successful.

Although the main rhododendron season is over, there is plenty still to see at HighBeeches so I made a dash around the gardens while there was a break in the clouds.

Majestic cornus 

The wild flower meadow is still in full bloom, along with swathes of persicaria, wild orchids and late flowering rhododendrons, magnolias and azaleas.

My highlight of the garden at this time of the year, however, is the majestic cornus kousa tree which is in full bloom and just starting to turn pink at the top. It is visible from right across the garden and, even after all the rain, is still beautiful.

Garden visit: High Beeches

The azaleas are blooming like crazy at High Beeches Gardens in Handcross. These snaps were taken on my phone.

High Beeches in the snow

I was lucky enough to get a sneaky peak around High Beeches gardens during the snow.
Many of the evergreen trees were groaning under the weight and rhododendrons that had bloomed after the balmy January weather were also buried.
Here are some of the photos I took this afternoon...

Garden visit: High Beeches autumn colour

The riot of colours at High Beeches gardens only got going in the final couple of weeks before the gardens closed at the end of October.
Here are a few photos I took on my last visit.