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Nettlestead Place in September splendour

A special feature at Nettlestead Place’s gardens is the range of shimmering ornamental grasses, resplendent as summer turns to autumn

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Form and Colour

Amanda Cottrell, chairman of Kent Tourism Alliance, patron of Produced in Kent and former High Sheriff of Kent, shares the secrets of her beautiful garden in Challock

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Chelsea's Grand Designs

Fancy yourself as Chelsea Flower Show contender? Kent-based Brett Landscaping and Building Products teamed up once again with designer Geoff Whiten this year to create a show garden to inspire gardening enthusiasts of all abilities. We show you how

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Country cousins

Enjoy a visit to a pair of neighbouring Kentish cottage gardens this month
and experience two very different interpretations of the country

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Charm in abundance

Enter a hidden paradise of colour and scent this season at this small but perfectly formed front garden in Ashford

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Colour crescendo

Mere House, at Mereworth, offers the visitor a rich tapestry of autumnal colours

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Summer's edge

Rock Farm’s deep borders reach a crescendo of colour and texture this month

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Treasures of the shade

Experience the charm of spring shrubs in the dappled light of Woodhay’s informal garden

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Spring song

Take a spring stroll surrounded by primroses, hellebores and daffodils at Honnington Farm

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A topiary fantasy

Enter the magical world of topiary artist, Charlotte Molesworth, with a visit to her whimsical garden

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Right plant, right place

A riverside garden at Charing Heath reveals a wealth of micro-climate habitats and different ways of transforming each

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Wild about gardens with the Kent Wildlife Trust

Kent Wildlife Trust has launched its Wild about Gardens Award Scheme to inspire and encourage more local people to become wildlife friendly and help make Kent the Wildlife Garden of England

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Spring vistas

Kent Life enjoys the seasonal views at picturesque and developing Boldshaves garden near Woodchurch

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Fair maids of February

Warm up with a walk around Broadview Gardens at Hadlow College, as carpets of snowdrops and hellebores herald the spring

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A rainbow of colour

Surround yourself with colour as you stroll the double rainbow border at Westerham’s Charts Edge

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The pleasure of peonies

Admire the longest peony border in Britain at Penshurst Place’s Glorious Gardens

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Cottage charms

Enjoy a visit to Yew Tree Cottage, a quintessential cottage garden that has been lovingly created by its owner on a small, sloping plot

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Wild at heart

If you want a summer meadow this year, you need to prepare the ground now and you will be rewarded with drifts of wildflowers and grass

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Originally a country market town, Ashford’s continuous development and ability to change with the times has seen it evolve into a modern transport hub with historic links
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The RSPB is asking the public to help restore a major wildlife site in Kent. Fifty years ago, the Lydden Valley, just south of Sandwich, was a wildlife-rich wetland, but prolonged drainage has seen the area dry out and wildlife leave as a result.
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George Jessel talks to Kent Life about farming, family, diversification and his dream cheese
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