Holehird Gardens
Nature Reserves, Country Parks & Beaches · Windermere, Cumbria & the Lake District
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What’s there
- Free parking
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Free parking outside the Walled Garden; overflow parking area available when busy (especially Wednesday mornings).
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
A 10 acre fellside garden on the shores of Lake Windermere with views over the lake and surrounding fells. The Walled Garden contains herbaceous borders, island beds, and spring bulbs. The gardens hold six National Plant Collections — Astilbe, Daboecia, Meconopsis, Polystichum, Hosta and Tanacetum coccineum — as well as a Lakeland Collection of Hydrangea. Rhododendrons and alpines are among the plantings. New accessible paths have been laid across the fellside, opening up further areas of the gardens to explore.
Gardens open all year round, dawn to dusk. Visitor Information manned by volunteers April-October only.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Bug pot
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Lunch boxes
- Sun hat
- Cool bag
- Painkillers for grown-ups
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