High Beeches Gardens - Garden Highlights

Highlights Of The Gardens

Your visit to High Beeches will be a delightful experience. We offer a range of literature for those who wish to know more about the gardens at the Gatelodge entrance.

High Beeches has a magnificent collection of rare and unusual shrubs and trees from around the world, dating back to more than a century ago. Many were collected by famous plant hunters such as Ernest Wilson, George Forrest and Frank Kingdom Ward and are therefore of significant historical importance:

The National Collection of Stewartia Trees

The best acid natural flower meadow in Sussex. A Site of Special Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI)

Daffodil Field of Hope, commemorating loved ones – daffodils are planted in memory of friends and family. Visitors are invited to sign the book of remembrance

Bluebells flower throughout the glades in early May

The only site in the UK where the stunning Willow Gentian has naturalised in drifts of startling blue in August

‘One of the finest displays of autumnal colour in the country from early September’ according to Roy Lancaster. Many North American Fall trees and Maples display glorious autumn colour

Champion trees – all accessible to visitors. A champion tree is officially recognised as the tallest specimen of its type in the British Isles

A large collection of rare and unusual Oak trees from around the world

Tree Trail - 23 interesting trees, with descriptions and country of origin

All the plants are electronically catalogued and labelled and Garden Records are carefully kept