Hole Park Gardens
Open 11am to 6pm
Hole Park Gardens in Rolvenden is open to the public. Dogs are also welcome in the gardens but must be kept on a short lead.
- Open Wednesdays and Thursdays July to October, plus Sundays in October.
- The Gardens close for the season on Sunday 29th October 2023.
- The Coach House tea room will open on Garden open days from 11am to 5pm (which is earlier than the gardens which close at 6pm)
Entry prices:
- Online: £10 per Adult when prebooked via holepark.com. Children age 5-17 will be £2.50 and under 5's enter free of charge. Dogs welcome at no charge.
- On the gate: £11 per Adult. Children age 5-17 will be £2.50 and under 5's enter free of charge. Dogs welcome at no charge.
- Season Tickets - available now via our website £30 per Adult and £8 per child. Valid from 1st April 2023.
Hole Park sits quietly in the Wealden countryside with an extensive 16 acre garden and an additional 10 acres of beautiful woodlands. The gardens are laid out in a series of rooms divided by immaculately trimmed yew hedges. Round every corner there are surprises including sculptures, the standard wisterias which flower in May, the beautifully planted long borders, the sundial garden and the exotic border. Water features including ponds, rills and streams add to the relaxing nature of the gardens.
In addition to the bluebells, Hole Park Gardens offer visitors colour and interest all year round. There is always plenty to enjoy including impressive magnolias, camelias and rhododendrons which lead visitors past the bear family carved out of a fallen tree on the way through to the famous bluebell wood. A circular walk leads through to the renovated solar powered icehouse before winding its way back through the magical silver haze of the wild garlic walk.
Hole Park is a family-owned estate which has been in the Barham family for the past four generations. Formalised gardens combine with natural woodland. These extensive gardens were developed, laid out and planted by Colonel Barham, the great-grandfather of the present owner, in the years between the two World Wars.
Summer Highlights
Visitors to the gardens in the summer months can see the recently renovated long herbaceous borders. Half the border has been replanted in the original pink and blue planting scheme first used by the late Christopher Lloyd when he first designed the border at Hole Park. The remainder of the border was replanted using the original colour scheme of yellow and white.
Late Summer and Autumn Highlights
The late flowering agapanthus ‘Hole Park Blue’ and colourful exotic border with its cannas and dahlias are an impressive sight in late summer before the reds, yellows and golds of autumn appear bringing colour and interest to the gardens in October. Visitors can enjoy the annual Napoleonic Re-enactment Weekend in September.
A circular network of hard paths enables visitors of all ages, including those who require a wheelchair, to enjoy the gardens. Wheelchairs may be reserved free of charge and there are full disability WC facilities.
Light lunches and delicious homemade cakes are available in the coach house where apple juice, local beer and homemade jam and honey produced from the fruit and bees on the Hole Park Estate can be purchased. There is also a small plant stall next to the coach house.
Hole Park is situated 4 miles west of Tenterden on the B2086 between Rolvenden and Benenden.
