Kencot Gardens

About Kencot Gardens

The allotments were 1 of the first allotments to open for NGS and have been opening for 16 yrs. 9 people tend the plots growing a range of vegetables, flowers and fruit. Wheelchair access only to just inside of Allotment gate

Belham Hayes:This is a mature cottage garden with mixed herbaceous borders and 2 old fruit trees. Planting scheme with the emphasis on scent and colour coordination. Small vegetable patch to the side of the property

Ivy Nook: the garden continues to be a mass of colour throughout all seasons. Mixed borders with spring bulbs , rockeries and a small pond make for a charming small garden, in the shadow of a magnolia and old apple tree.

Manor Farm: 2 acre walled garden. Grade II listed C17 house (not open). Naturalised bulbs, wood anemones, fritillaria in mature orchards with many varieties of old English apples, pears, quince, and mulberry. Pleached limewalk, clipped 130 yr old yew balls, alliums and box, greenhouse with ancient Black Hamburg vine. Revolving summerhouse. Chickens. A stream runs along the garden boundary

Well House 😕 acre garden with mature trees and hedges, miniature woodland glade and brook with waterfall. Plentiful bulbs in springtime with island beds and mixed borders providing year-round interest. Semi enclosed patio with dry stone walling, rockeries and bulb containers giving early colour

The Gardens: ? acre garden. The mature front garden which has 2 old apples trees, an old well and the most wonderful herbaceous bed which is full of continuing colour throughout summer. The rear garden is newly planted with perennial borders and another herbaceous bed. There are plentiful bulbs in the spring and in summer there is a continuous burst of colour with pots of seasonal flowers

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