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Weekend in Kent - Bilting House, Ashford, Kent. - 17 May 2009

Written by Richard Ball. Posted in Events Past

Bilton House, Ashford, Kent.

A seven acre woodland garden on acid soil in which rhododendrons and azaleas flourish, with walkways meandering throughout. With no pretensions to design, the eye popping colours combinations were randomly dropped throughout the walks making many astonishing combinations. Here are some pictures of these almost violent colours – a sight to behold.

Cercis-siliquestrum and azaleas

Apricot Azaleas  Yellow Azalea Azaleas  

     Colour extremes    Azalea orange   Pink Azaleas

There were calmer interludes

Acer with blood red leaves   Acer negundo ‘Variegatum’   Acer palmatum ‘Dissectum group

Rhododendron carmine   Rhododendron double-mauve   Rhododendron purple

Rhododendron cream   Rhododendron light-mauve   Rhododendron light-yellow

Rhododendron cerise-red.   Rhododendron mauve   Rhododendron white-dark-blotch

Rhododendron pink   Rhododendron red   Rhododendron white

Conifer coming into flower   Cornus lightening a dark patch in woodland   Old apple tree c.1930’s

Another old apple tree c.1930’s   Bracket fungi on old apple-tree   wild garlic in woodland

Rhododendron in clearing

Bilton House, Ashford, Kent.   Aquilegia and Geranium ‘Johnson’s Blue’   Horse and rider by Elizabeth Frink

all photographs by John Metcalf