GARDENS OPEN
Look under events for diary dates for each garden 
Penshurst Place
10 acres of garden dating
back to 14 century. Garden divided into a series of rooms. All year interest.
Teas and light refreshments. Admission to garden only £5.50, child £4.50.
Concessions £5.00. Open daily
21 March to 31 st October. No dogs, wheelchair access.
Leydens
1m S of Edenbridge on B2026 towards Hartfield. Open 12 - 5. Admission £3.50 children free.
Private garden of garden designer, nursery owner and gardener who won Gold & Best in Show at Chelsea in 2002 with the NGS garden. Plenty of planting ideas several water features, plants clearly labelled and fact sheet available
Yew Tree Cottage , Penshurst
1 mile from Penshurst on the
Bidborough Road. Restricted parking. 10am to 5pm.
Admission £2.00, children free. Small English country cottage hillside garden, full of unusual plants.
Lots of seats and secret corners. Something to see in all seasons. Teas served. .
No dogs. See events for diary dates. Also open by appoinment.
Abbotsmerry Barn Salmans Lane , Penshurst
Private visits arranged by appointment.Admission £4 adults. children free.No dogs
7.5 acre
garden on undulating S-facing slope. Perennial plants are of particular interest.
Featured in ‘The English Garden 2002’ .. Email abbotsmerry@aol.com
Hall Place , Leigh
On B2027 From Hildenborough to Leigh Admission £5.00. Child £2.00.
Large outstanding garden with 11 acre
lake and picturesque bridges. Many rare trees and shrubs. Wheelchair access
to the main parts. Home made teas served. Sundays 25 April - 25 May 2008
Old Buckhurst, Mark Beech
Leave Leicester Arms, Penshurst on left. Proceed on B2188. Turn right into Grove Road,at T junction turn right. Old Buckhurst is 1.5 miles on left. Described by a visitor as a 'quintessentially english cottage garden'. The 1 acre partly walled cottage garden surrounds the C15th Grade 11 listed farmhouse (not open) . Featured in ‘ Good
Garden Guide’ 2003/4/5/6, Meridian TV, 2004, UK Style TV 2005 and English Garden magazine. Not suitable for wheelchairs.. No dogs. Admission £3.00, children
free.
Open 11 – 5.00pm. Groups welcome by arrangement.
Tel. 01342 850825
Stonewall Park, Chiddingstone Hoath
B2026 from Penshurst,
half way to Mark Beech on right. Large
Victorian walled garden with herbaceous borders and vegetable garden with 100 year old espalier pear trees. 12 acres of woodland garden with rhododendrons, magnolias, azaleas, interesting trees and shrubs, wandering paths and lakes. Home made teas. Sea of wild daffodils in March. Admission £4.00 children free.
Hoath House , Chiddingstone Hoath
Approx 1 mile east of Mark Beech on B2026
Mediaeval and Tudor family house (not open) surrounded by both mature and unusual young trees, gravel garden in formal stable yard, shaded garden, herbaceous borders, raised beds, knot garden, vegetable garden.Stunning views over rural Kent. Home made teas. Admission £3.50, children free. Open 2 - 5.30pm
Edenbridge House , Edenbridge
1.1/5 miles north of Edenbridge
on B2026. 5 acre garden laid out in 1930’s
as a series of rooms. Wheelchair access.
Open Tuesday’s Wednesdays and Thursdays
April until September ( 2 -5pm)
Evening opening 18 th June 2008 ( 6 – 9pm) £4.50,
wine served.
Also for NGS - Teas served on these days.
2-6pm
Burrswood , Groombridge
B2110, signed on village green
House is a Christian hospital
and place of healing (not open). Wheelchair access.
.There are 220 acres with outstanding views, Victorian and Edwardian
terraced gardens, park, ponds and pools, woodland and farmland. Admission £3,
child free. Light refreshments and teas. Open
Hever Castle
Gardens open 1 st March to 30 th November
11am – 6pm
www.hevercastle.co.uk
Groombridge Place
Voted the best garden attraction in the UK (Good Britain Guide 2003), Groombridge
Place Gardens and the Enchanted Forest, near Royal Tunbridge Wells, is a fabulous
mix of quintessentially English formal gardens and informal woodland gardens.
The gardens are open daily from April 1st to November 6th
from 9.30am to 6pm, or dusk if earlier.
