Old Kent's Cottage Gardens

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A Lancashire cottage garden where roses, medicinal plants, wildlife and history grow together.

Explore more than a hundred roses, an evolving apothecary garden inspired by historical medicine, wildlife habitats, orchard planting and the continual development of a traditional English cottage garden.

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Lancashire, England

Old Kent’s Cottage Gardens

Old Kent’s Cottage Gardens grew from a simple Lancashire plot into a layered tapestry of roses, herbs, orchard and pond, tended slowly over years to honour traditional cottage gardening and encourage birds, bees, and quiet human visitors alike.

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A close, intimate photographic view of a mixed rose border centered on a fully open David Austin English rose blossom with blush pink cupped petals fading to creamy edges.

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The story behind Old Kent’s

Tended slowly over years to honour traditional cottage gardening, the garden is a layered tapestry of roses, herbs, orchard and pond — a quiet place for birds, bees, and visitors alike.

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Highlights

What you’ll discover

🌹 Rose Collection

Explore more than 100 roses, from David Austin favourites to historic, climbing and rambling varieties.

🌿 Apothecary Garden

Discover medicinal herbs and the history behind the physic garden

A tranquil physic garden laid out in neat geometric beds edged with low box hedging, with digitalis, fennel, sage, and echinacea around a stone sundial.
A wildlife-friendly corner in warm late-afternoon light, with a small reflective pond rimmed with worn stone and moss, native grasses, oxeye daisies, and shrub roses.
A refined view of the orchard in late spring through a rustic wooden gate half ajar, with ancient apple and pear trees frothy with white and pale-pink blossom.