A neo-classical idyll in the heart of Hampshire West Green House Gardens combines neo-classical style with contemporary design. Nestling in a woodland corner of northern Hampshire near Hartley Wintney, the gardens of West Green House surround “one of the prettiest manor houses in England”. It is a garden with a special and distinctive sense of place created over two decades by Marylyn Abbott, a renowned Australian garden designer whose twin passions for English gardens and international opera have created a unique horticultural environment. West Green House is a quintessentially English manor house and garden, but with a twist. The gardens intriguingly combine neo-classical style with flamboyant contemporary design. Neo-classical style A grand water staircase provides a focal point to the Nymphaeum Fountain designed by architect Quinlan Terry. The magnificent Walled Garden, faithfully restored to its original lines, is entered through an arbor of wisteria. An alley of apple trees divides an elaborate potager with its berry-filled fruit cages, annual flowers and colourful vegetables from its signature perennial borders exuberantly planted in subtle hues of mauve, plum and blue.