The Hardy Plant Society Kent Group - Garden Flower Show and Plant Sale 2006

Great Comp, St Mary's Platt,
Borough Green, nr Sevenoaks

Saturday and Sunday, June 10th & 11th, 11.00 to 5.00
2006

Admission Ł4.00 - HPS members Ł3.50
Free admission for under-16s

The Garden

Great Comp is a 7-acre garden which is the home to an extensive, and continually growing, plant collection including many rare and magnificent specimen trees and shrubs. The gardens include lawns, herbaceous borders, woodlands with woodland walks and vistas, heathers, walled gardens, herbaceous borders, 'ruins', 'follys', statuary and garden ornaments providing interest all year. At the time of the Show, in early summer, the garden will be approaching the peak of its long season of interest.

'Dysons Nurseries' attached to the garden and run by the garden's Curator offers a wide range of interesting perennials and specialises in Salvias.

Great Comp Garden [website]

The Plant Sale

The Plant Sale, featuring some twenty 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.

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

There are not many such opportunities to choose from so many unusual and beautiful plants in one place so, if you want something a little bit different for your own garden, this is where to find it.

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. There will also be a photographic section with four 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.

Displays

It is expected that the displays will include:

Displays of

Butterflies
Foliage Plants
Hardy Geraniums
Lavenders
Salvias

Displays by

The Faversham Area Group
The Alpine Garden Society
The NCCPG
The Hebe Society
The Iris Society

Nursery Stalls

Nurseries and Private Growers expected to be represented at the Show include:

Saturday Brickwall Cottage Nursery Byan Webb Cottage Garden Geraniums Dawn 'n Dusk Nursery Garden Plants Gould Farm Halls Court Geraniums Homeplants In The Border Lowood Nursery Pinewood Plants Plaxtol Nursery Scree Gardens Silver Spray Southon Plants The Old Walled Garden Usual and Unusual Plants		Sunday Brickwall Cottage Nursery Byan Webb Cottage Garden Geraniums Dawn 'n Dusk Nursery Fletchers Garden Plants Gould Farm Halls Court Geraniums In The Border Lowood Nursery Pinewood Plants Plaxtol Nursery Scree Gardens Silver Spray Southon Plants The Old Walled Garden Usual and Unusual Plants Wallace Plants
Sundries Rokatha		Sundries A Bone Engineering Rokatha

For details of some of these nurseries and of some other specialist nurseries in
Kent and East Sussex see the [nurseries page]

Directions

Great Comp is situated about 2 miles East of Borough Green near Sevenoaks.
From the A20 East of Wrotham Heath, turn South onto Seven Mile Lane, B2016. At the first cross-roads turn right into Comp Lane - the garden is on the left in half a mile. There are brown tourist signs on the A20, the B2016 and from the A25 at Platt.

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. [OPEN MAP]

For an archive of the details of the Garden Show 2005 at Hole Park see [here]