Gardening Group Programs

 

CRAB & WINKLE GARDENING GROUP

Schedule of Events

2024

 

MONTHLY GARDENING GROUP - PLACES TO VISIT

21^st March

 

The  plan for this month is  a large garden centre with an excellent café.

 

18^th April

The Orangery Mystole Chartham Canterbury CT4 7DB.  Mgnificent herbaceous border, water features, mordern sculptures, terrace teas (home made) with splendid views.  Admission £5. CONFIRMED

 

16^th May

Pheasant Barn Church Road Oare ME13 0QB.  Varying areas of formal and informal planting, meadow, views, nectar-rich planting – this garden was regional finalist in The English Garden’s The Nation’s Favourite Gardens 2021.  Admission £7  CONFIRMED

 

20^th June

Knowle Hill Farm Ulcombe Maidstone ME17 1ES.  This 2 acre garden is situated 400 feet up on the north downs with spectacular views south over the Kentish Weald.  It is rich in plants which thrive in the warm dry conditions and is full of interest year round.   Early spring sees with snowdrops, cyclamen and spring bulbs followed by lavender, roses and agapanthus in summer and later in the years asters, grasses, cosmos and salvias.  Also topiary and box hedging - a garden with rich and colourful planting.  Note there are some steep slopes.  Home made teas are available.  Open for private visits by prior arrangements – entry is £6 a head.   CONFIRMED

 

18^th July

Charleston Firle, West Firle, Lewes BN8 6LL.   (COACH TRIP – £35 per person  This historic house and garden was home to the Bloomsbury Set. B Two members of the set - Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant –  designed the beautiful walled  garden as a “living painting”.  It is filled with sculpture to be visited for a dose of tranquillity and to enjoy the garden’s spaces at leisure.  Picnics are permitted.  So far as I can see admission is free but if we wanted to combine the outing with a visit to the house there is lots to see including some erotic drawings so not for those with delicate sensibilities! CONFIRMED 

 

NOTE .....Admission to the house is 19th September depend on numbers – 

 

15^th August

Churchfield Pilgrims Way, Postling, nr Hythe, CT21 4EY.  This is 5 acre garden with ponds, springs, herbaceous plants, ferns and bamboos, a cobnut platt, vegetable plot and woods.  CONFIRMED.

 

19th September

45 Seymour Avenue Whitstable CT5 1SA.  A plantsman’s garden of ¼ of an acre with a wide range of unusual plants grown in heavy wet clay with chip bark paths for easy access.  Entry is £5 with Refreshments available in aid of MS Trust.  TO BE CONFIRMED