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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

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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.

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Wildflower on Kent road trip! Shoreham country lane. by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: There’s something especially uplifting about roadside wildflowers. Without any attention from growers or gardeners, they flourish – despite the fumes – and are the most beautiful thing on long car journeys by a mile.The bright red field poppy catches everyone’s eye! They were one of the first wildflowers to colonise fallow fields or disturbed soil, which is why they’re found by the side of the roads and in cornfields,

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Geranium 'Rozanne' @ Ightham Mote Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Geranium 'Rozanne' (often sold as Geranium 'Gerwat') is an award-winning, fast-growing hardy perennial celebrated for its prolific, long-lasting violet-blue flowers and white centres. Voted the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Centenary

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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..

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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..

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14th century Ightham Mote national trust old medieval moated manor house in Kent UK by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Ightham Mote in Kent, a splendid medieval moated manor house originally built in the mid-14th century. The gatehouse was added in the 1480s when the manor was in the ownership of Sir Richard Haute, High Sheriff of Kent

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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.

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The cutting garden, at Ightham Mote NT Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Vegetables and fruit are also grown here. The slightly raised beds are edged with tiles to retain soil and decorative low hazel hurdles to offer support for the cutting garden’s tall herbaceous perennials and annual flowers.. This path is an aromatic journey, with scent from both the bee laden lavender and the fragrant sweet peas that grow up tall poles.

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Welsh poppy..Papaver cambricum @ Ightham Mote Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The Welsh poppy is a plant of damp and shady places, roadsides and hillsides. It is also a garden escapee. It flowers over summer, attracting nectar-loving insects.

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Beautiful Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea) @ Ightham Mote Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Foxgloves are biennials, although occasionally plants can live longer than two years. They grow to well over a metre in height and are a splendid sight on the banks ofrivers, lakes and canals as well as on roadsides and woodland edges.

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Digitalis Pink Panther - Foxgloves Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: An attractive and refreshing colour, flowering for a long period with flowers around the stem. These Foxgloves are compact, hardy perennials and will provide an abundance of sturdy flowering spikes which will attract a succession of pollinating insects throughout the summer.

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Ightham Mote..a medieval moated manor house in Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Ightham Mote is one of the oldest medieval manor houses to survive in England.The core of the house dates from the 1340s, although a complicated series of alterations and additions were made in the late 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. A moat surrounds all four wings of the house, which in turn is built around an open courtyard.

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Ightham Mote..a medieval moated 14c manor house in Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The Ightham Mote Estate lying within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Surrounded by peaceful gardens with an orchard, water features, lakes and woodland walks

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Little Wild Meadow @ Eynsford Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Just below the viaduct at Eynsford next to the river Darent is this tiny small wild meadow of poppy and cornflowers beautiful and wild colours...

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Walled Garden at Ightham Mote NT Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The bees at Ightham Mote have a nectar rich flowers form early spring right through to autumn.Osteospermum is grown for its daisy-like flowers, which are produced all summer long.

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Misty late afternoon walk in Norfolk by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Beautiful scenic image of a misty moody countryside in North Norfolk.. lovely walk with lots of hidden wildlife around.