Old Buckhurst Garden - visitors' comments

8 August 10 Sittingborne, Kent - lovely cottage garden, full of interesting plants and hooks and crannys! Lots of hard work gone into it. Very peaceful.

8 August 10 Rochester - lovely relaxing feel to your garden - thanks for all your effort - looks as if it's always been here.

8 August 10 Such a pretty and interesting garden and good plants for sale too! Hope to come again.

1 August 10 Great Mongeham – an absolute delight, crammed with lovely colours and textures.

28 July 10 Hornchurch – we-re drawn back once again to a lovely oasis of colour.

7 July 2010 Letter from Tour:
Many thanks for the very enjoyable visit to your garden last Friday by the members of the U3a GROUP 6 (so many groups, so we all love visiting lovely gardens).

Your introductory talk was quite a highlight of the visit. Everyone said how interesting and lively it was as an introduction to going round the garden. You had given us an insight into how you had come to make the garden as it is today - a mass of colour, many unusual plants and flowers, all was delightful.

We also enjoyed the opportunity to acquire some special plants to take home for our own gardens.

All the best to you and your husband (and daughter) who made us feel so welcome. Sevenoakes, Kent

20 June 10 Gillingham. Beautiful garden, lovely as usual. The Booklet on Garden Tips is excellent. It's become my Bible.
Thank you for putting it together. I would advise everyone to get it.

19 June 10 Germany. It is a pleasure to visit your beautiful garden. It inspires and gives ideas for our own one. Thank you very much.

19 June 10 Wadhurst. Delicious garden; wonderful plant selection/maintenance and colour associations. Am green with envy!

5 June 10 Being at Old Buckhurst quietly at sunrise was magical, and the sense of wellbeing stayed with me for days afterwards. The design and planting
is sublime, a garden I doubt anyone could ever forget. Thank you for the opportunity to take photographs of that beautiful place! Abigail Rex

2 Aug 09 A lovely garden with bright colours and an amazing variety of plants. Very enjoyable.

2 Aug 09 Lovely garden, beautifully planned. Very interesting, natural and colourful. Your hard work has paid off.

2 Aug 09 So many different and unusual plants and lovely little pathways with new vistas. Thank you again.

2 Aug 09 A delightful garden with such variety! You have worked so hard and with such imagination. This is a peaceful spot. Thank you for sharing.

2 Aug 09 Beautiful garden. The planting is so multifarious - every turn on the path and vista seen is a delight.

26 July 09    A lovely garden indeed. It shows what green fingers and sheer dedication can do!

July 09         TOUR BOOKED from SUNDRIDGE & BRASTED HORITULTURAL SOCIETY - a beautiful garden much enjoyed by us all and an
                    excellent tea. Many thanks. (PLEASE NOTE REFRESHMENTS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PRE-BOOKED TOURS)

18 July 09    A fantastic garden - obviously a labour of love. This garden is just fab! Truly inspirational. Thank you and for the advice.

12 July 09 Clematis are the highlight but a splendid garden altogether, expecially the scented bits! Must be a lot of work!!

12 July 09 What a delight! I am inspired. I love the different areas to surprise you. Can only guess at the amount of work. Thank you so much.

31 May 09 Am green with envy! The designing is brilliant, beautiful and peaceful as well as stimulating. Many thanks.

27 July 08   You have created a most beautiful, idyllic haven. Thank you for sharing it. I believe that
                    we are here on earth to make a difference; to make an improvement and you have certainly
                    have done this here in creating this place of beauty as an inspiration to others and for the
                    benefit of future generations. (New Zealand).

27 July 08 A revisit coz I loved it so much the first time. Even better this time - I'd happily live in the pink/blue
garden for ever! Thank you sooo much. I'll be back next summer. (Sevenoaks)

20 July 08   This wonderful garden has to be the best we have seen up to now. Having visited a large number of NGS
                   gardens over the years this is the most colourful, inspirational and peaceful one. (Sittingbourne, Kent)

18 July 08   This is my dream garden - but all the work puts me off trying to achieve the same at home! It's just lovely.

13 July 08   We preferred coming here to the Hampton Court Flower Show we visited two days ago. A wonderfully
                    balanced, colourful and peaceful garden - a real haven and Jane Gladstone was most helpful and informative
                    about her garden.

13 July 08   An absolute delight - can't wait to get home and start copying!! (New Zealand)

13 July 08   Incredible work rate - lots of thought and effort, one well repaid.

29 June 08   Inspiring planting very pretty. (Wadhurst)

29 June 08   Just loved your garden wonderful structure and planting.

22 June 08   Our second visit - and well worth it: lovely garden. Fuchsia bought 2 years ago doing very well!

15 June 08   What a beautiful garden so many different aspects. Delightful scents and a joy to behold!

15 June 08   A delicate blend of old and new blooms with a superb background of a charming home.

15 June 08   Lovely eye for colour and plant combination. I left feeling inspired.

4 June 08 This is the only garden in the area we visit every year and at different times. Always something new to see - a real
delight. Thank you.

4 June 08 It is lovely to be here once again. Your garden reflects all the hard work you put into it. As always the flowers
& shrubs are beautiful. Thank you for sharing your garden with us.

14 May 08 We love the different areas and choice of colours, good combinations. Lovely!

25 May 08 TOUR FROM SWEDEN:
Thank you for all the fantastic inspiration!

Amazing, inspiring, interesting. Thank you!

6 June 07 Your garden is like what I imagine heaven to look like. I hope I can get into there for only £3!
A magical treat for the middle of the week.

2 June 07 A perfect harmony of vistas, colours, contrasts and proportions. Everything that makes an English garden the
envy of the world.

16 May 07 The garden is as delightful as ever and reflects all the enthusiasm you have for it and also shows all the hard work
that is done. It is truly beautiful.

24 June.06    Bought some plants from you 2 years ago. Thank you. We come to your garden regularly once or twice a year.
                     They are growing lovely.

21 June 06   TOUR: On behalf of the [Langton Green] Flower Club may I say thank you very much for your hospitality.
                    We all found your garden delightful. You have worked so hard but it is much appreciated.

3 Sept 05 Just as beautiful as the last time I came (8.8.05). Different plants flowering but just as inspiring.

6 Aug 05 Gorgeous garden despite the drought. Inspirational. Lots of colour, lots of interest.

22 July 05 Can’t believe you’ve done all this in just 17 years. Congratulations!

1 June 05 Beautiful. As a keen gardener I can appreciate the work which has gone into it.

15 May 05 Inspirational – Will definitely be here again. Can’t wait to get home and start planting more.

13 June 05 An harmonious whole, though my favourite is the pink, blue and lilac sundial garden.

June 03             A. du Gard Pasley (Landscape Architect)
                          Your garden was outstanding.    Such good plants and colour groupings were a real pleasure.
                          I am all too aware of the hard grind such perfection represents. Congratulations.

8 June 03 What a beautiful array of plants in beautiful settings and colour schemes.

28 May 03 A garden to come back to every year and something new to discover each time. Delightful.

25 May 03 Wonderful smells, beautiful colours, wonderful greens and elegant looking flowers. Aged 9!

7 May 03 Lovely gardens. Will come again. Given us plenty of ideas for our garden. Thank you.