We love our plants and also enjoy sharing our plant know-how with fellow gardeners. If you prefer to see, touch and smell the flowers before you buy your plants, then our Nursery Shop is the place to visit. Well behaved dogs welcome on short leads.

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Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants is within easy reach of  Winchester, Newbury, Andover and Basingstoke, all less than a 25 minute drive. And, we are only around 47 minutes away from Salisbury.

If you're planning to visit us and are travelling by coach please contact us first.

Please Note -  We advise you to check our opening hours before travelling.  If you are using a Sat Nav we recommend using our old postcode RG28 7NJ this will take you to the bottom of our road where you will find our Brown Sign. 

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From the South - inc. Andover, Salisbury, Southampton, Winchester...

• Take the Whitchurch slip road off of the A34 and continue into Whitchurch along Winchester Street  - in approx 1 mile you will reach the town centre. 
• At the mini-roundabout, take the third exit onto Newbury Street - signed for Newbury and the A34 northbound 
• ALMOST IMMEDIATLY (approx. 25 yrds.) Turn Right onto the B3400 London Street - signposted to Overton & Basingstoke.
• Note :-The White Hart Hotel & Restaurant will now be on your left and you will shortly pass Clacy's Garage on your right.
• Continue along the B3400 through Wells-In-The-Field and into Freefolk - Now keep a look out for our Brown Sign,  you need to take the first left turn after the Freefolk sign.
• Turn Left off of the B3400 onto Priory Lane, continue up hill past the Watership Down Pub and continue past the last houses, in approx 200 yrds  turn right into our entrance.

From the North - Newbury ...

• Exit the A34 using the slip road near to Litchfield and signposted Whitchurch - take the parallel old A34 for three miles to reach the town centre.
• Drive down the hill into Whitchurch along Newbury Road, JUST BEFORE YOU REACH THE WHITCHURCH MINI-ROUNDABOUT TURN LEFT on to the B3400 LONDON STREET - signposted to Overton & Basingstoke.
• Note :-The White Hart Hotel & Restaurant will now be on your left and you will shortly pass The Red House public house.
• Continue along the B3400 through Wells-In-The-Field and into Freefolk - Now keep a look out for our Brown Sign, you need to take the first left turn after the Freefolk sign.
•  Turn Left off of the B3400 onto Priory Lane, continue up hill past the Watership Down Pub and continue past the last houses, in approx 200 yrds  turn right into our entrance.

 

From Basingstoke

• Use the B3400, follow the directions for Bombay Sapphire - continue through Overton and Laverstoke passing Bombay Sapphire and a very long row of thatched cottages on your right hand side. On entering Freefolk turn right on to Priory Lane and continue up hill past the Watership Down Pub (approx 200yds) and turn right into our entrance.

We accept online orders from mainland GB along with the Isle of Wight. We do not accept orders from Northern Ireland, follow this link for our full shipping policy.

If you live in our area and would like to collect your plants rather than have them delivered you can convert your order to allow you to 'Pickup' from Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants.

Throughout the gardening year we hold seasonal talks at the nursery. Rosy picks her favourite perennials from the nursery and talks about their attributes - how best to grow them,  combine them with other plants to create great planting combinations and how to avoid common pitfalls.

We also invite you to join Rosy Hardy here at the nursery for one or all of her hands on, practical propagation workshops. Rosy covers a variety of methods to propagate herbaceous perennials.

These workshops are aimed at beginner and more experienced gardeners who wish to learn the basic principles and practices associated with plant propagation in a relaxed and friendly environment. Book Now.

For information about booking please read our terms of service

As well as providing plants to the public, we work with many professional gardeners, garden designers and landscape contractors and we warmly welcome trade enquiries

We really enjoy working with our trade customers, getting to know you, understanding what you need and how we can help.  

We aim to be approachable, responsive and easy to work with. To help you, we offer a year round cash and carry service from the nursery, but are also happy to collate your orders with a bit of notice. Apologies, but during our main show season, May to July, deliveries by van can be very limited, but do talk to us and we will try to help.  Alternatively we can deliver by overnight courier.  

We issue regular 'Current Lines' lists to help you plan future projects and aim to turn around quotations within three working days.  

Working on an eco-sensitive project?  Please be rest assured, we grow our perennials in a totally peat-free medium from Melcourt.  As a result head gardeners from National Trust properties have become regular clients.  

For full Trade Terms and Conditions, please contact us.  Or even better, pop in and visit, we would love to show you around.  

Over the last twenty years, we have been chuffed to bits to work with some great garden designers, supplying them with plant material that went on to be showcased in their gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court Flower Show, plus of course, our very own Rosy Hardy's 'Forever Freefolk' show garden in 2016.  

Many have become good friends and repeat customers.