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About Smiths Hall
Mature 3 acre gardens surrounding a beautiful 1719 Queen Anne House (not open to public). The garden is set within a brick and ragstone wall of the same date. The garden layout follows that of the 18th C original as recorded in Kip in his Country Houses of Kent. The main features are the 300 or so rose bushes, some in the formal rose garden and rose walk, others along walls. There are four deep herbaceous borders (red, blue, yellow and white), a sunken garden with pond surrounded by tall grasses, a banana tree plantation and castor oil plants. There is an extensive peony border but this is over by the end of May. There is a new planting of a Tuscan wildflower meadow, from which you can exit the garden and join a 20 minute woodland walk which starts up a tulip tree avenue and arrives at a 9 acre meadow bordered by an American Arboretum with a huge variety of young native and American specimen trees (mostly oaks and maples) offering a pretty view back to the house and across the surrounding Kent countryside. You can then relax and enjoy teas and home-made cakes on the lawn by the pool.
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