Kentish Gardens

Great Dixter Spring Plant Fair 2017

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  Every visit to Great Dixter is a treat, but when the additional carrot of a plant fair is dangled in front of my […]

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Spring at The Salutation

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  If I were to win the lottery, The Salutation is the house I’d want to live in. I’d spend every spring and summer […]

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Spring Comes to Sissinghurst

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  How fortunate that my first visit to Sissinghurst this year should coincide with the warmest day of the spring so far. As the […]

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Goodnestone Rising

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  It was possibly a little too early to go out snowdrop spotting. In another year it might almost have been too late, but […]

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Singles All The Way

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  I love flowering bulbs. I plant thousands of them in pots every autumn and spring, ready to bloom the following season. I plant […]

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So Far, So Good!

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  Day two of our garden opening is always a more relaxed affair and I am thoroughly looking forward to it. On day one […]

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Waiting and Anticipating

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  When preparing for our garden opening, I find I end up doing anything but gardening. Over the last two days I have been […]

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Going to The Chapel

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  When a new garden opens for the National Gardens Scheme in Thanet it’s a major event, principally because there are only three others, […]

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Sunshine and Showers at Saltwood

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I have met some Americans who believe all us Brits live in quaint thatched cottages and are intimately acquainted with The Queen. We might […]

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Saluting the Salutation

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It was fitting that Gardeners’ World, in the first programme of the new series, chose to highlight the miraculous resurrection of the gardens at […]

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Changing of the Guard at Goodnestone

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Great gardens to visit in East Kent are rarer than hens’ teeth. Those that open during the winter months even scarcer. So, as soon […]

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Walmer Castle Gardens

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Like fry through the holes in a fisherman’s net, certain gardens I visit manage to escape being written about on my blog. It’s not that […]

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