Autumn Sundays at Hole Park Gardens

Beautiful colours; beautiful flowers

Hole Park Gardens in Kent, which is renowned for bluebells and beautifully clipped topiary and great yew hedges, has other surprises to captivate visitors this autumn, including a flower unique to Hole Park, the spectacular late flowering agapanthus ‘Hole Park Blue’.

The 15 acre gardens include a vibrant exotic border which peaks in September and October together with mature trees and Japanese Maples which provide striking autumn colour around the gardens and woodland.

Visitors can enjoy a pretty circular walk that takes walkers to a renovated Ice House, a 1740’s construction which was used to store ice long before the days of refrigeration. When the ice was cut and stacked it would last for up to three years in this cool environment.

Open on Wednesday and Thursdays until the end of October visitors can also enjoy additional Sunday opening on 4, 11, 18 and 25 October 2015.

Head gardener Quentin Stark describes this year’s exotic border: ‘As well as the more familiar exotic plants such as cannas, banana plants, grasses, gingers and gazanias, we have a couple of new varieties of dahlia, 'Bishop of Oxford' which has single orange flowers and dark leaves and dahlia ' Bishop of York' which is a single yellow cultivar also with dark foliage. New to the border this year is Salvia haenkei 'Prawn Chorus' which is a dwarf cultivar derived from the Bolivian species, with masses of small bright red flowers that look like prawns!’

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