Pashley Manor Dahlia Days 2026
Nine-day late-summer celebration of 70+ dahlia varieties through Pashley Manor's eleven-acre garden rooms, with the herbaceous borders at their peak hot-red and burgundy display.
- When
- Where
Pashley Manor Gardens, Ticehurst, near Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 7HE.
- Info
Visit the official Pashley Manor website for the full programme and ticket details.
Pashley Manor Gardens runs Dahlia Days each September as the autumn counterpart to its better-known spring Tulip Festival — nine days when the late-summer borders are at peak. More than seventy varieties are planted across the eleven-acre garden rooms in deliberate colour groupings: pinks in the Rose Garden, yellows in the Golden Beds, whites in the Elizabethan Garden, purples around the pool, and the headline hot-red, orange and burgundy display in the main herbaceous borders. Roses make a second flowering, canna lilies and late perennials fill out the planting.
Pashley Manor sits a thirty-minute drive from The River Haven. Dahlia Days draws a similar audience to the spring Tulip Festival but in a different mood — quieter, more reflective, the long September light favouring photographers. The gardens reward an unhurried afternoon — stay riverside in Rye, with breakfast on the Rother before the drive home.
Stay at The River Haven
Pashley Manor Gardens is a thirty-minute drive from The River Haven. Pair an afternoon at the dahlias with a quiet evening back in Rye, then breakfast on the Rother before the drive home.
