insideKENT Magazine Issue 85 - April 2019 | Page 45

DAYSOUT
KENT’S
GORGEOUS GARDENS
KENT’S NICKNAME – THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND – COULDN’T BE MORE APT.
FROM SMALL, NEAT GREEN SPACES TO HUGE, RAMBLING ACRES OF PLANTS AND
TREES, WE HAVE IT ALL. A KENTISH COUNTRY GARDEN IS A VERY SPECIAL
PLACE INDEED, AND IF YOU WANT TO FIND PEACE, QUIET, BEAUTY AND A PLACE TO
REALLY MARVEL AT HOW VARIED AND INFINITE NATURE CAN BE, A KENT GARDEN
IS THE BEST PLACE YOU COULD POSSIBLY CHOOSE.
PENSHURST PLACE & GARDENS
Penshurst Place & Gardens, Penshurst
www.penshurstplace.com Chiddingstone Castle, Chiddingstone
www.chiddingstonecastle.org.uk
Majestically surrounding the house, over one mile of yew hedging divides the
garden into a series of ‘rooms’, each with its own season and colour. Wander
further afield and visit the arboretum, trout lakes, lake park and Lancup Well.
At around 50 acres, they make Penshurst Place and Gar dens one of Britain’s
most alluring and seductive spectacles throughout the year. It is the views from the garden that are the most inspiring, renowned for miles
as being the most perfect place to see the Greensland Ridge, situated below the
North Downs. However, the gardens at Chiddingstone Castle deserve to be looked
at rather than simply from, especially as they contain a maze inspired by ancient
Egypt, an avenue of Japanese cherry blossom trees and a Victorian orangery.
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