DESTINATION – THE WALLED NURSERY HAWKHURST

Hello, It’s been too long! We have been on an unplanned – August hiatus, how has your month been? With weddings to attend, trips to plan, sheds to build (yes another wee one for the husband), shop updates and general summer enjoyment all round, we have been rushed off our feet. I have been meaning to share these images for a couple of weeks. As it is almost the weekend, it seems a good time to get my butt in gear and show you this wonderful place – you will definitely want to visit if you happen to live or be in the Kent/East Sussex area anytime soon! This is the beautiful Walled Nursery in Hawkhurst. With thirteen Victorian Glasshouses, this place is a nursery like no other. These are the kind of places we love to visit as much as possible in the spring and summer. We are plant obsessed and our garden has become quite the patchwork of colour and shapes. The owners Emma and Monty took on the wonderous and exhausting task of giving this place it’s magic back in 2010 and along with their families and volunteers – are doing an amazing job!We spent way too long in the succulent house, eyeing up all the weird and wonderful species. Rusty planters, glass hanging gardens, baby plants and established ones too. The buildings themselves are amazing, the watering and even drainage systems were fascinating. Toadflax and ferns grow out of old pipes and tiny cracks in the walls. Roses were climbing up the windows and against the high red brick boundary walls of the nursery.Colourful blooms waving and bobbing in the breeze, so many varieties, we didn’t know where to start. So, I grabbed a trolley and started filling it up – it’s the only way. A flower trolley dash filled with happiness that will last for seasons to come!Antique rust and peeling white paint on the frames and structures, pale next to the shimmering glass – reflecting all the colours from the planted flower beds and plant displays. The overgrown bits and rambling plants really make this place, we were poking around for ages, the lovely staff checking on us every now and then to help us find things. My new obsession is now scented Pelargoniums – I have been collecting the regular ones for years now. My go-to plant for a dash of bright joy and a stroke of their lily pad leaves. The scented ones are so delicate – with fragrances of lemon sherbert, turkish delight, peppermint or cola. Some have the softest velvet stems and others with their frilly and fuzzy leaves. Needless to say, two of them came home to live in the Tea Shed.To top it all, their garden shop is filled with vintage tools, pots, awesome garden chairs from Denys & Fielding (cherries please) and houseplants draped all around.If you get here, keep your eyes peeled for Billy and Benny. ‘Most likely to be found lazing in one of the glasshouses during the day’ – they are amazing. Meow! x