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Beguiling Red Poppy @ Ightham Mote Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Lovely purple and red flora mix in the cutting garden at Ightham mote garden on the Kent weald AONB..

bust commission of claire ightham from dragonoak for @ightham !! she was fun to draw yeehaw

Ightham Mote and its gardens are owned by the National Trust and open to the public.The house is a Grade I listed building, and parts of it are a Scheduled Ancient Monument.Dates from the 14th century.

Oxeye daisy in the Apple Orchard @ Ightham Mote Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Most of the fruit trees can be found in the orchard, where the bee hives are situated; a traditional placing as the orchard is accessed through an opening in the cutting garden..Often growing in swathes along a roadside or field margin, the oxeye daisy is just as at home in traditional hay meadows. The large, white, daisy-like flowers are easy to identify.Cheerful, prophetic and mystical, there’s more than meets the eye to the humble oxeye daisy. Look out for them on roadsides and woodland edges.

Roses @ Clematis @ Ightham Mote NT Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: This stunning Clematis lives up to its dramatic name of the president and will make its presence known in any garden space. A deciduous climbing plant it produces single flowers that can reach up to a whopping twenty centimetres in size they have a beautiful violet blue colour which are silvery underneath and are topped off with pinkish to red stamens

Little Walled Garden @ Ightham Mote NT Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Lovely 14 acre garden surrounding a picturesque medieval moated manor house c1320, The gardens around the 700-year-old moated manor house provide formal lawns, herbaceous borders, shrubs, roses, spring-fed fountain pools, cascades, courtyards and a cutting garden.

Papaver Orientale 'Princess Victoria Louise'@ Ightham moat kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Little walled garden @ Ightham Moat garden NT on the Kent weald AONB.."All in the pink"- lovely Pink flowers..

National Trust - Ightham Mote Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The old coach house a nice view of the building while walking back fro the lake very scenic through the trees and the sun in the perfect spot..beautiful NT lyig in the hidden valley on the weald.