A compact but lovely garden - lots of different areas & winding paths mean that even when busy you can find a secluded quiet area. Love the ruins / follys! Great in hot weather as there are lots of shady spots to sit or wander through the trees. Also has a café and small plant nursery.

First time visitor to this particular garden. It was very quiet due to being a weekday so, plenty of parking space. The gardens were still reflective of their idiosyncratic last owners. There was a mix of styles, some of which you don't see often anymore, such as a conifer bed so popular up to the nineteen seventies and eighties. They still looked good in the seven acres of garden. The woodland garden area was also different from many other visitable gardens and charming to walk through. They were very keen on making romantic ruins and lots of benches and summerhouses (very useful when dodging rain showers yesterday). The café was lovely. We had coffee and bread pudding while planning our route round. There are some books you can read while there. Mr Cameron (last owner) sounded like a difficult man! But, his garden creation is very enjoyable to visit. Dyson's nursery at the garden was full of interesting plants that you don't see everywhere, his speciality being salvias.

Stunning gardens in the heart of Kent. An incredible variety of plants set within a delightfully landscaped setting. The gardens include a number of medeival-style follies with mysterious statues hidden about the place. It's a wonderful place to relax and breathe in nature's best. There is a very good cafe on site which is very reasonable when compared with NT properties. Parking is free.

I went with an elderly friend, who uses a walker. We parked in the normal car park, as close to the entrance as we could, but then found there were nearer disabled spaces available. The gardens are fairly flat with paved or dirt tracks which were wide enough for a walker, but not for people to pass easily in places. However it being a Tuesday in May the gardens weren't that busy, which was lovely. We straight away headed to the cafe. It is signposted to the disabled toilets but we did find we could get into the cafe through a door although it wasn't labelled. A buggy behind us was also looking for the entrance, and we had to unbolt the door to widen the entrance to the cafe for the lady. We enjoyed coffee and shared a slice of delicious and light apple spiced cake. We then walked around the gardens and enjoyed several of the many benches around the gardens. It was beautiful with rhodedrendrons, azaleas and other flowers. The lawns looked beautiful and it was lovely sitting in the sun to admire the garden. We came back to the cafe for lunch and had leek and potato soup and a gorgeous homemade saus6roll. It was very good quality sausage and the onion jam inside it made it extra tasty. We also treated ourselves to Taywells I've cream tubs, vegan strawberry and raspberry sorbet. They were delicious, but frozen hard. The kind lady serving out them in the microwave to soften slightly and they were perfect. We pottered around the garden again, enjoyed more tine on the benches sitting in the sun. We purchased 2 plants on the way out, but didn't have tine to explore the north Lawn garden area. We stayed over 4vhiurs and it was a lovely relaxing day. The birds are singing in the trees and white butterflies were flying around in the sunshine. A perfect day. My friend from Newcastle loved it. I've been several times before but the garden was at its best today. A beautiful garden well worth visiting, despite the narrow country roads to get there.

Went here for the afternoon on the bank holiday, was a lovely gardens even later in the year there was still some colour in the garden. A variety of small pathways lead you around the gardens with lots of places to sit and relax. Once done with the gardens you can head to the small tea rooms with indoor and outdoor seating . They do a selection of basic foods and the usual teas and coffees, reasonably priced and nice polite staff. They also have a plant sale near the exit should you wish to buy some of the plants you see. In particular the salvias. Sadly the house part is in need of repair so they are need of funding. I would recommend this to anyone in the area for a little visit.