Our long trip this season was to the County of Wiltshire with a full schedule of visits to enjoy. Our journey to our base near Corsham involved a slight dog-leg via Salisbury, to visit the ancient and supremely impressive cathedral. The building is a beautiful example of [perpendicular] architecture with...
Many people visit Bedgebury every year, and probably understand that this is the National Pinetum…but do not have the pleasure and privilege of being shown around by the Curator, Dan Luscombe. Dan has been the Curator for a number of years, and is passionate in his enthusiasm for the conifer...
Alun Griffiths – Chairman 2003 to 2022 Alun Griffiths left for Malaya in 1960, having finished his post-doctoral studies at Oxford. He spent 8 years working at the leprosy hospital in Sungei Buloh, after which he re-located with his family to Melbourne, Australia, and there developed a group to study...
On one of the hottest days of the year to date, an enthusiastic group of 22 gathered at Wildwood Trust for a visit that – unusually for a visit by Kent Men of the Trees – did not focus on a specific tree collection. Our expectation on this visit was...
This year’s AGM is to be held on Saturday 15th April at 2.30pm. Please note that this year it will be at a NEW VENUE, Lenham Community Centre, 2 Groom Way, Lenham, Maidstone ME17 2QT All our members are invited to attend the proceedings, enjoy the presentation and to socialise over refreshments...
In advance of the Green Card being finalised, we thought it may be helpful to circulate the PROVISIONAL dates for the KMOTT events this year, so that you can enter them in your diary. AGM on Saturday 15th April at 2.30pm. This year at a NEW VENUE, Lenham Community...
KMOTT went to Gloucester – and did not step into a puddle at all! The long-anticipated excursion to Gloucestershire started on a miserable note – our pick-up points at Stop 24 and at the Mercure Hotel near Maidstone caught our travellers in an unexpected downpour, but your correspondent is happy...
White House Farm – Maurice Foster On another bright and sunny afternoon a group of nearly 20 members gathered in the garden of White House Farm, under the expansive boughs of a fallen very old Bramley apple tree; we were greeted and made to feel welcome by Maurice Foster and...
Hole Park Lime Avenue KMOTT presented 70 Lime Trees to Hole Park near Rolvenden to celebrate HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the Prince of Wales’s tree planting initiative. The site is on both sides of an existing public footpath to form an avenue and the intention is to also...
On a perfect Summer’s afternoon, an enthusiastic group of two dozen members met as agreed at Ladham House near Goudhurst. Whilst the Kent Men have visited once before in 2009, we were excited to return to this beautiful garden and to observe the improvements made by the Johnson family. We...
