The Garden

Set around a Victorian mansion, Doddington Place's ten acres of landscaped gardens offer wide views of the surrounding countryside.

Particular features include impressive clipped yew hedges, a woodland garden with azaleas and rhododendrons, a nineteenth-century Wellingtonia walk, an Edwardian rock garden, a formal garden with mixed borders, a sunken garden and a recently constructed brick and flint Gothic folly. The woodland garden should be at its very best at the time of our Garden Show and Plant Sale in May.

There is a tea room and shop at the entrance to the gardens.

See Doddington Place Gardens website [here]

The Plant Sale

The Plant Sale, featuring Specialist Nurseries and Private Growers from around Kent and Sussex, offers visitors the chance to buy from an extensive range of interesting and desirable plants, many of which are rare and difficult to get through normal suppliers. In addition, we shall also be having our own HPS stall at the show, selling Members' plants.

Some of the Specialist Nurseries do not supply by mail order and many of the Private Growers sell only through the Plant Sales.

Opportunities to choose from so many unusual and beautiful plants in one place do not come often, so don't miss this one!

The Flower Show and Displays

Kent Group members grow a wide range of plants and will be entering some of their prized specimens in a competitive flower show in the marquee. There will also be a photographic section with five classes covering different aspects of plants and gardens.

In additon to the competitive flower show, Kent Members and Area Groups will be mounting displays of the many unusual plants they grow.

If you want to be impressed by unusual, often rare, plants shown at the peak of perfection, make your way to the flower marquee and feast your eyes.

Directions

Doddington Place is about 6m SE of Sittingbourne. From A2 turn South at Teynham or Ospringe (Faversham) or from A20 turn North opposite Lenham (indicated by brown tourist sign.)

Map - this link is to a map which is hosted by streetmap.co.uk and may be slow to download on a 56 k modem. Opens in a new window - close to return.   [MAP]

For an archive of the details of the Garden Show 2007 at Goodnestone Park see [here]