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What's on around Whitstable
Today to Thu 3 Jun, closest first.
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Whitstable Gardens - Open Garden for NGS
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Enjoy a day of eclectic gardens by the sea. 22 people are showing off their gardens, 10 of them for the first time, with 3 favourites returning, but others marked with yellow balloons, are there to...
Whitstable Gardens, Whitstable CT5 4LT
Sun 23 May
43 The Ridings - Open Garden for NGS
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Delightful small garden brimming with interesting plants both in the front and behind the house. Many different areas.
43 The Ridings, Whitstable CT5 3QE
Sun 9 May
43 The Ridings - Open Garden for NGS
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Delightful small garden brimming with interesting plants both in the front and behind the house. Many different areas.
43 The Ridings, Whitstable CT5 3QE
Sat 15 May, Sun 11 Jul
52 Cobblers Bridge Road - Open Garden for NGS
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As you walk through the house to the garden admire around 150 houseplants in a 1.5 bedroom house; from tiny airplants to philodendrons and monsteras.
52 Cobblers Bridge Road, Herne Bay CT6 8NT
Sun 9 May
The Ugly Duckling
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Feeling different, teased by his friends and not accepted by his family, the Ugly Duckling is sad and lonely.
Malthouse Theatre, Malthouse Road, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7JA
Wed 2 Jun
Saint Thomas Becket – World Celebrity Healer
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A major exhibition in the context of Becket’s story, Canterbury pilgrimage and health & wellbeing.
2020 marked the 900th anniversary of Thomas Becket’s birth, 850th of his death, and 800th of...
The Beaney
18 High Street
Canterbury CT1 2RA
Sat 29 May to Sun 4 Jul
Faversham Artisan Crafts , Curios and Gift Markets 2021
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Artisan Crafts , Curios and Gift Market offering unusual and unique products from local makers and traders . Come and have look round , you will be amazed ! Covid Safe Event .
The Alexander Centre, 17 Preston St, Faversham ME13 8NZ
Sat 15 May, Sun 16 May, Sat 5 Jun
The Orangery - Open Garden for NGS
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1½ acre gardens around C18 orangery, now a house (not open). Magnificent extensive herbaceous border & impressive ancient wisteria.
The Orangery, Canterbury CT4 7DB
Sun 16 May
Chilham Castle - Open Garden for NGS
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The garden surrounds the Jacobean house 1616 (not open). C17 terraces with herbaceous borders. Topiary frames the magnificent views with lake walk below.
Chilham Castle, Canterbury CT4 8DB
Sat 8 May
Bilting House - Open Garden for NGS
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6 acre garden with ha-ha set in beautiful part of Stour Valley. Wide variety of rhododendrons, azaleas and ornamental shrubs. Woodland walk with spring bulbs.
Bilting House, nr Ashford TN25 4HA
Sat 15 May, Sun 16 May
Doddington Place - Open Garden for NGS
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10 acre garden,wide views; trees and cloud clipped yew hedges; woodland garden with azaleas and rhododendrons; Edwardian rock garden (not wheelchair accessible); formal garden with mixed borders.
Doddington Place, Sittingbourne ME9 0BB
Wed 2 Jun
Frith Old Farmhouse - Open Garden for NGS
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A riot of plants growing together as if in the wild, developed over 40 yrs. No neat edges or formal beds, but several hundred interesting (& some very unusual) plants.
Frith Old Farmhouse, Faversham ME13 0DD
Sun 9 May
Old Bladbean Stud - Open Garden for NGS
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Five interlinked gardens all designed and created from scratch by the garden owner on three acres of rough grassland between 2003 and 2011.
Old Bladbean Stud, Canterbury CT4 6NA
Sun 23 May, Sun 18 Jul
Oak Cottage and Swallowfields Nursery - Open Garden for NGS
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Get off the beaten track and discover this beautiful ½ acre cottage garden in the heart of the Kent countryside.
Oak Cottage and Swallowfields Nursery, Ashford TN25 5JT
Fri 21 May, Sat 22 May
Haven - Open Garden for NGS
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Award winning 300ft garden, designed in the Glade style, similar to Forest gardening but more open and with use of exotic and unusual trees, shrubs and perennials, with wildlife in mind, devised and
Haven, Ramsgate CT12 4BZ
Sun 23 May, Sun 20 Jun
Torry Hill - Open Garden for NGS
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8 acres; large lawns, specimen trees, flowering cherries, rhododendrons, azaleas and naturalised daffodils; walled gardens with lawns, shrubs, herbaceous borders, rose garden incl shrub roses,
Torry Hill, Sittingbourne ME9 0SP
Sun 23 May, Sun 13 Jun, Sun 18 Jul
Godinton House & Gardens - Open Garden for NGS
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12 acres complement the magnificent Jacobean house. Terraced lawns lead through herbaceous borders, rose garden and formal lily pond to intimate Italian garden and large walled garden with...
Godinton House & Gardens, Ashford TN23 3BP
Sun 16 May
Sandown - Open Garden for NGS
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My small compact Japanese style garden and pond has visitor book comments such as: inspirational, just like Japan, a stunning hidden gem.
Sandown, nr Ashford TN25 6QX
Sun 9 May, Sun 6 Jun
Sandown - Open Garden for NGS
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My small compact Japanese style garden and pond has visitor book comments such as: inspirational, just like Japan, a stunning hidden gem.
Sandown, nr Ashford TN25 6QX
Sun 23 May, Sun 20 Jun
Tram Hatch - Open Garden for NGS
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Meander your way off the beaten track to a mature, extensive garden changing through the seasons. You will enjoy a garden laid out in rooms - what surprises are round the corner' Large selection...
Tram Hatch, Ashford TN27 0BN
Sun 30 May, Sun 4 Jul