Loseley House Gardens, 18 May 2022

I spotted in the RHS Garden Magazine that Loseley House Gardens is a Partner Garden with the RHS and that in May RHS members would have free entry to the gardens.   Angie and I had talked about visiting Loseley Gardens with our cameras, and it seemed too good an opportunity to miss as we are both RHS members.   Loseley House and gardens are also about a ten-minute drive away.  It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to go, and sadly our other Snappy Friends were unable to join us.

Loseley House was built in the 16th Century and purchased by Sir Christopher More during the reign of Henry VII.  Much of the stone for the house came from the Cistercian Abbey of Waverley, ten miles away near Farnham.  (I posted about my visit to Waverley Abbey ruins last month, which you can see here).  Loseley House is still owned and lived in by the same family - the More-Molyneux and is largely unaltered.

We often spot the outside of the house on TV programmes such as Midsummer Murders.

The gardens are walled and beautifully kept. 

 

I found some pelargoniums!

This is Quantock Marjorie, an angel pelargonium.   

Chives

What is left of the moat which once circled the house.

We finished our visit with a cream tea - as all good garden visits should!