Gardens
Pentillie's gardens are not open every day, just on specific open weekends.
The next garden open day is: 20th March 2011, 11am until 4pm, £6 admission, children under 12 free. No dogs. Refreshments available in the Castle.
Outside the usual open days, private tours of the castle and garden can be arranged for groups of 15 or more, subject to availability. Please contact us on 01579 350 044 to discuss your plans.
The dates for the Garden Open Days 2011 are now in the diary. We will also be offering some guided walks around the snowdrops and bluebells. Further details on specialised garden walks to follow soon.
Unless otherwise specified the gardens will be open from 11am until last admission at 4pm. Entry is £6, with children under 12 free. Please wear sensible shoes for walking as the paths are uneven and muddy in places. Sadly no dogs. Refreshments available in the Castle, not included in the price unless otherwise specified.
Sunday 20th March 2011
Garden Open Day. The first of our four Garden open days for the year. Primroses, camellias and the early rhododendrons.
Sunday 3rd April 2011
Mothering Sunday Garden Open Day. Gardens open again for you to wander around at your leisure. An opportunity to treat special Mums and to view Pentillie Castle’s grounds and the daffodils in all their glory.
Sunday 1st and Monday 2nd May 2011 (Bank holiday weekend)
Garden Open Days. Later spring flowers and the beginning of the bluebells.
Do email us if you are particularly keen to be informed of these events.
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Despite the serious neglect of the kitchen gardens over the last 30 years, there is still beauty to be found when you have the eye for it.
Have a look at Rachel Warne's stunning shots, see right, that have earned her the wonderful accolade of International Garden Photographer of the Year for her Portfolio of shots of the decaying greenhouses in the Walled Kitchen Garden at Pentillie. These photographs will be on display at Kew Gardens until September 2010.
Sadly the kitchen gardens will need a lot of work to restore them to their former glory (see the shot in the gardens gallery), but we are positive that we will achieve this in the years to come. We have plans to work on the restoration project with Help for Heroes and other retired servicemen's charities.
Anyone who wishes to volunteer to help in the kitchen garden once we get the project off the ground would be very welcome. Please email Sarah to express your interest.
The American gardens take up about 20 acres of the pleasure gardens at Pentillie and are full of stunning rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias. They also boast enormous old oak and beech trees - if only trees could talk they could tell a tale or two!
The gardens were called 'American' due to the plants that were imported from the United States in the mid-1800's; shortly after this area of the garden was created by Lewis Kennedy in around 1815.