High Beeches Woodland and Water Garden

Mid Sussex

Type:Garden

Handcross, HAYWARDS HEATH, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH17 6HQ

Tel: +44 01444 400589

High Beeches Woodland and Water Garden

About

High Beeches Woodland and Water Garden is a beautiful, tranquil and historic garden of some 27 acres. It was begun more than 100 years ago and is full of rare and important plants and trees. High Beeches Gardens is situated just outside Handcross, in the heart of mid-Sussex, close to the A/M23 and within easy access of London, the South and South East.

The garden offers seasonal interest, with glorious spring and early summer colour and fragrance including magnolias, camellias, bluebells, azaleas and rhododendrons. High Beeches Gardens has been recommended in the RHS Rhododendrons, Camellias and Magnolias Group Handbook as the best garden in the UK in which to see Rhododendrons growing. David Millais, a member of the RHS Rhododendrons, Camellias and Magnolias Committee and owner of Millais Nurseries is a recognized authority on the plants. He wrote "go to High Beeches Gardens in Sussex to see (Rhododendrons) plants on a good spacing, where they have room to develop and show their true characteristics." In June the wildflower meadow is at its peak. The Willow Gentians are a spectacular blue in August and High Beeches has magnificent and sumptuous autumn colour.

High Beeches is home to a number of champion trees, and it is the only UK site where the magnificent blue Willow Gentian is naturalised. High Beeches has the National Collection of Stewartia and also the finest natural acid wildflower meadow in Sussex with more than 200 varieties of wild flowers as recorded by the Botanical Society of the British Isles. High Beeches is one of the top gardens in the country for autumn colour and has the best autumn colour in Sussex

The Bray/Boscawen gardening dynasty has cared for the garden for fifty years. Their great passion is the 'species' forms of plants - the original, wild forms from around the world. The garden is fully catalogued and contains thousands of specimens including numbered plants collected by famous plant hunters such as Ernest Wilson.

Book Tickets

Guide Prices

Ticket TypeTicket Tariff
Adult - with Gift Aid£9.90
Adult - without Gift Aid£9.00 per ticket
Group 20+£8.50 per ticket

Facilities

Establishment Features

  • Groups welcome

Parking & Transport

  • Free parking

Provider Preferences

  • Countryside Setting

TripAdvisor

Map & Directions

Road Directions

Just off A23 ten miles north of Brighton, 1 mile east of Handcross on B2110

Awards

  • Tourism South East Award -Tourism South East Member 23/24 - Bronze Tourism South East Member 23/24 - Bronze 2023

Opening Times

2024 (1 Apr 2024 - 31 Oct 2024)

What's Nearby

  1. Nymans

    One of the great Gardens of the Sussex Weald with a collection of rare and beautiful…

    1.14 miles away
  2. Go Ape Crawley

    Located in South-East Crawley you can find us nestled in popular Tilgate Park. Go Ape…

    2.29 miles away
  3. Ouse Valley Viaduct

    Located between Haywards Heath and Balcombe, Ouse Valley Viaduct offers quite the…

    3.38 miles away
  1. Borde Hill Garden

    A historical formal Garden, woodlands, lakes, parkland and adventure playground.

    Event…

    3.81 miles away
  2. Wakehurst

    Stunning photos of magnificent botanic gardens owned by Kew & all you may wish to know…

    3.85 miles away
  3. Ifield Watermill

    Ifield Watermill is a working corn mill. It demonstrates continual land use from the…

    4.04 miles away
  4. Mannings Heath Estate

    With the collaboration of wine and golf, we are aiming to attract visitors for wine…

    4.18 miles away
  5. Tulleys Farm

    Farm Shop, Butchery, Gift Barn. Tea Room, Garden & Play Area. PYO, Seasonal Events,…

    4.49 miles away
  6. Leonardslee Gardens

    One of the finest gardens in Britain, Leonardslee will reopen to the public in March 2018…

    4.82 miles away
  7. Ansty Gardens

    Gardens open to the public for the National Gardens Scheme.

    4.84 miles away
  8. Bolney Wine Estate

    Find out why Sussex sparkling wine has been beating champagne in blind taste tests.…

    4.94 miles away
  9. The Priest House

    The Priest House sits on the western edge of Ashdown Forest in the picturesque high Weald…

    5.39 miles away
  10. Huxley's Experience

    A large collection of birds of prey housed in aviaries typical of their natural habitat…

    5.59 miles away
  11. Leechpool Woods

    Leechpool is an ancient woodland covering 53 acres and includes Oak, Ash, Hazel,…

    5.76 miles away
  12. Chesworth Farm

    This 90 acre (36 ha) farm is managed as a livestock farm, with numerous footpaths around…

    6.25 miles away
  13. The Capitol

    The Capitol is the Horsham District's key arts venue offering unrivalled facilities…

    6.27 miles away
Previous Next