Seasonal highlights
Late Winter
A good selection of hellebores in the woodland garden and a few early flowering rhododendrons.
Spring
Spring bulbs including snowdrops and great swathes of daffodills.
Early Summer
The Spring garden is a highlight of the early summer season. It is a delightful sight with hundreds of tulips and daffodills growing amongst the grass all overhung with pink and white cherry blossom.
The 4 acre woodland garden is an exotic mass of rich colour and sweetly scented azaleas and rhododendrons. It is its best in late May/early June.
Summer
The sunk garden is continually changing with a huge variety of plants including, alliums, roses,, penstemons, poppies, peonies as well as a good selection of annuals.
The Dahlia Garden looks at its best in August and September. Richard Oldfield is Chairman of the Canterbury Cathedral Restoration Appeal so this year the dahlias are a mixture of the Bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Dover.
Autumn
The terrace borders and the sunk garden borders are full of late autumn colour with a profusion of dahlias and asters.