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    FLORAL MEDLEY

    Jul 25, 2019 5 minutes
    Words and photographs Leigh Clapp

    KEY FACTS

    Character Walled, traditional, cottage-style garden, with lots of areas of interest, planted for scent and colour

    Size Back garden is separated into two sections, which are 20x16.5m and 20x15m

    Aspect The main section is south facing, and the back section shady, but it benefits from south-east Kent’s sunny micro-climate

    Soil Light and sandy

    Owner Tessa Sale, who has lived there for 29 years

    House Queen Anne house, built in 1714

    Open Will open in June 2020 as part of the Little Gardens of Sandwich (open-sandwich.co.uk)

    Hidden behind medieval flint and brick walls, this garden in the historic village of Sandwich in Kent, is a floriferous delight, brimming with a multitude of scents and colours. Evoking the feeling that

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