Landscaping in Alresford

Landscaping for Alresford's gardens

Alresford is one of Hampshire's most charming small towns — its broad Georgian high street and watercress beds fed by the crystal-clear Itchen give it a distinctive character. Many properties here are Georgian or Victorian brick-built homes with established walled gardens, and the tradition of ornamental gardening in the town is strong. Chalk and flint are local building materials visible throughout the town, and incorporating these materials into garden hard landscaping creates designs that feel entirely of their place. The chalk-filtered waters of the upper Itchen create alkaline soils that favour classic English garden plants.

Alresford has a high concentration of listed Georgian and Victorian properties with traditional enclosed gardens suited to formal planting, box hedging and period-appropriate hard surfaces. The surrounding chalk valley villages have more rural properties where naturalistic planting in large informal gardens is the dominant style.