Landscaping in Lyndhurst

Landscaping for Lyndhurst's gardens

Gardens in and around Lyndhurst sit within or adjacent to the New Forest National Park, which brings both planning considerations and a strong ethos around working with nature rather than against it. Many homes here have gardens that blur into the forest — ponies may wander past the garden gate — and boundary design, deer-resistant planting and habitat creation are important elements of any project. The sandy, acid soils typical of the forest support beautiful heathland plants including heathers, gorse and rhododendrons which can be used to spectacular effect.

Lyndhurst and its neighbouring forest villages have a high proportion of Victorian and Edwardian villas built during the railway age, sitting on generous wooded plots. The sandy, acidic forest soils and proximity to open forest grazing mean gardens here are quite unlike those elsewhere in Hampshire, requiring specialist planting knowledge.