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Nature FeaturesYou are in: Kent > Nature > Nature Features > Emmetts Garden  Emmetts Garden, near Sevenoaks Emmetts GardenPart of Emmetts Garden has been restored after old photographs were discovered showing how the garden looked in the early 20th century.
The garden was created by a banker called Frederick Lubbock, between 1893 and 1895 and the shrub garden was added between 1900 and 1908. The garden layout has been attributed to Lubbock's friend, gardener William Robinson. After Lubbock's death in 1927 the estate was purchased by an American geologist Charles Watson Boise, who until 1964 carried out sympathetic alterations and additions to the house and grounds thereby preserving the garden's original character. Regrowth after the Great StormRobert Leslie went to meet former head gardener, George Fillia to find out how the garden had recovered after 95 percent of its mature tress were blown down overnight on Friday 16th October, 1987. Help playing audio/video  Emmetts Garden as it used to be. The garden team at the National Trust property has redesigned the overgrown rock garden using newly-discovered photos from the Lubbock family album to piece together how it used to look at the start of the 20th century. BBC South East's Juliet Parkin went for a wander around the garden. The team have cut back the overgrown rock garden and have turned it into a scree garden using the old images for reference. BBC Kent's Andy Garland went to Emmetts to chat to Mark Nelson, Head Gardener, to talk about the new season at the Garden and the renovation work, and how his work in the Himalayas has helped him at Emmetts. Help playing audio/video Emmetts Garden covers an area of about 4 acres at the highest point in Kent on the 600 foot sandstone ridge near Sevenoaks. It is not so much a garden as an arboretum, although there is a formal rose garden adjacent to the Victorian house. Next to the garden is a further 14 acres of wooded valley which is also open to the public. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites last updated: 16/04/2009 at 10:12 SEE ALSOYou are in: Kent > Nature > Nature Features > Emmetts Garden 
 
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