Limekiln Farm

About Limekiln Farm

The Vanguard Way (East Croydon to Newhaven) runs down the drive. In late summer the garden remains colourful. The trees and spring flowers are plentiful, with naturalised anemones, cowslips, many daffodils, crown imperials. In May there are tulips, many flowering shrubs, azaleas, rhododendrons and peonies. There is a large rose garden and herbaceous border with late flowering annuals, dahlias, Helenium and Rudbeckia. A map and history of the house and garden is provided. A large prairie style garden has recently been developed. There is also a physic garden including a poison bed, a bog garden, informal pond and young specimen trees. In June there are many roses, flowering shrubs, and naturalised wild flowers. A talk on specific medicinal plants will be given by the owner in the physic garden at 3pm each afternoon. Her interest (as a retired anesthetist) are the substances from plants that have been developed into drugs that are used in medicine today. There are many interesting stories!

Flint walls enclose the main lawn, herbaceous borders and rose garden. Nepeta lined courtyard, Physic garden with talk at 3pm about medicinal plants, informal pond and specimen trees inc a very ancient oak. Many spring flowers and tree blossom. New prairie-style garden.