Courses, Events & Offers
Whether you are looking for a night away, to sample our special menus,
or to sign up for one of our gardening courses, take a look at our menu of events below.
How To Be A Gardener: August
Each month the head gardener will explore all the seasonal practical tasks to make your garden successful.
With a strong lean on gardening organically and with a sensitivity to nature. Each month the head gardener will hope to bring an understanding of the rhythm and changes that happen to the garden.
Plant selection and plant care will be an important part of each of the study days.
You’ll want to bring your notebook but otherwise we have all that you need (unless you have that favourite pair of secateurs you can’t be without). Lunch and refreshments are included.
If you’ve ever stood in your garden and wondered where to start and how to achieve the kind of garden that you want, then this is for you! We aim to strip away any fears and doubts you have about tackling your garden tasks and leave only the parts that make it such an endless pleasure.
Each day of the “How to Be a Gardener” series is designed to be enjoyed either as a standalone class or as part of a full through-the-seasons course, building up a set of skills to ready the keen gardener for everything that faces them throughout the year!
How To Be A Gardener: August
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Terms and Conditions
Hotel room rates include breakfast and all applicable taxes.
Your card will be charged for the full amount of your stay at the time of booking.
Refunds are available up to 48hrs before the start of your stay, with cancellation charges applying thereafter.
Cancellation charges will apply to each night of your stay not cancelled in advanced, and with be equal to the full room rate for each night.
We reserve the right to cancel bookings at any time and, in such event, will refund any monies paid.
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Eat/Sleep Master bedroom any night (Excl. Saturdays) £385
An opportunity to enjoy The Salutation for a little longer.
Eat/Sleep includes:
Eat in our restaurant, enjoy a three course A La Carte menu for 2 people
Sleep in one of our master bedrooms
Breakfast for two
Eat/Sleep is available any evening, except Saturdays, subject to availability
To make a reservation please call us on 01304 619919
Offer is for 2 guests for one evening, and is subject to availability. -
Eat/Sleep Guest Bedroom any night (excl. Saturdays) £335
An opportunity to enjoy The Salutation for a little longer.
Eat/Sleep includes:
Eat in our restaurant, enjoy a three course A La Carte menu for 2 people
Sleep in one of our guest bedrooms
Breakfast for two
Eat/Sleep is available any evening, except Saturdays, subject to availability
To make a reservation please call us on 01304 619919
Offer is for 2 guests for one evening, and is subject to availability. -
How to be a Gardener 2019 - Complete Series £720
In our monthly "How To Be A Gardener" series, the head gardener explores all the seasonal practical tasks to make your garden successful.
Building month-on-month, the course aims to create a fantastic base of skills of knowledge to tackle just about anything in your garden all the year round.
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Friday unplugged: Leo Kelly-Gee
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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How To Be A Gardener: June £90
Continuing our monthly "How To Be A Gardener" series, the head gardener will explore all the seasonal practical tasks to make your garden successful.
For June, this means things like rose care and selection, pest and disease identification and control measures, seed sowing for late colour and biennial plants for next season, propagation of short lived perennials.
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Pelagian Opera Festival
The inaugural Pelagian Opera Festival lands this summer, in the unmatched surroundings of The Salutation Gardens, Sandwich. As if by Magic is the theme, summoning within our walls all sorts of strange enchantments, mystical happenings and things wondrous to behold.
Presented in the afternoons, a new staging of The Magic Flute will be directed by Catrin Wyn-Davies and will include an international cast of singers from The Royal Conservatoire Den Haag making their festival debut, costumes by Dorothy Fothergill and scenography by Simon Costin. Die Kleine Zauberflöte will weave its spells around festival-goers as they picnic, providing each guest with a unique experience as they follow the action through the labyrinthine grounds, or wait for The Queen of The Night to appear before them…
In the evenings, the Festival will focus on Opera Cabaret, continuing in magical and otherworldly themes. We ask you to expect the unexpected, with liberties to be taken with much-loved pieces, and singers primed to go off piste when the spirits seize them. The performances, staged outdoors in the mid-summer dusk, will be accompanied by a suitably magical dining experience delivered by The Salutation’s award-winning kitchen team. The aromas of such delicacies will mingle with the arias in the air…
The talented team behind the Pelagian Festival will stop at nothing to make it a fabulous event, and a centrepiece of the cultural landscape for many years to come. Join them as they begin their most sonorous journey this summer, and upon your chequered blankets and at your tables drink with us a long toast to your wisdom and their great success.
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Pelagian Opera Festival
The inaugural Pelagian Opera Festival lands this summer, in the unmatched surroundings of The Salutation Gardens, Sandwich. As if by Magic is the theme, summoning within our walls all sorts of strange enchantments, mystical happenings and things wondrous to behold.
Presented in the afternoons, a new staging of The Magic Flute will be directed by Catrin Wyn-Davies and will include an international cast of singers from The Royal Conservatoire Den Haag making their festival debut, costumes by Dorothy Fothergill and scenography by Simon Costin. Die Kleine Zauberflöte will weave its spells around festival-goers as they picnic, providing each guest with a unique experience as they follow the action through the labyrinthine grounds, or wait for The Queen of The Night to appear before them…
In the evenings, the Festival will focus on Opera Cabaret, continuing in magical and otherworldly themes. We ask you to expect the unexpected, with liberties to be taken with much-loved pieces, and singers primed to go off piste when the spirits seize them. The performances, staged outdoors in the mid-summer dusk, will be accompanied by a suitably magical dining experience delivered by The Salutation’s award-winning kitchen team. The aromas of such delicacies will mingle with the arias in the air…
The talented team behind the Pelagian Festival will stop at nothing to make it a fabulous event, and a centrepiece of the cultural landscape for many years to come. Join them as they begin their most sonorous journey this summer, and upon your chequered blankets and at your tables drink with us a long toast to your wisdom and their great success.
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Pelagian Opera Festival
The inaugural Pelagian Opera Festival lands this summer, in the unmatched surroundings of The Salutation Gardens, Sandwich. As if by Magic is the theme, summoning within our walls all sorts of strange enchantments, mystical happenings and things wondrous to behold.
Presented in the afternoons, a new staging of The Magic Flute will be directed by Catrin Wyn-Davies and will include an international cast of singers from The Royal Conservatoire Den Haag making their festival debut, costumes by Dorothy Fothergill and scenography by Simon Costin. Die Kleine Zauberflöte will weave its spells around festival-goers as they picnic, providing each guest with a unique experience as they follow the action through the labyrinthine grounds, or wait for The Queen of The Night to appear before them…
In the evenings, the Festival will focus on Opera Cabaret, continuing in magical and otherworldly themes. We ask you to expect the unexpected, with liberties to be taken with much-loved pieces, and singers primed to go off piste when the spirits seize them. The performances, staged outdoors in the mid-summer dusk, will be accompanied by a suitably magical dining experience delivered by The Salutation’s award-winning kitchen team. The aromas of such delicacies will mingle with the arias in the air…
The talented team behind the Pelagian Festival will stop at nothing to make it a fabulous event, and a centrepiece of the cultural landscape for many years to come. Join them as they begin their most sonorous journey this summer, and upon your chequered blankets and at your tables drink with us a long toast to your wisdom and their great success.
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Pelagian Opera Festival
The inaugural Pelagian Opera Festival lands this summer, in the unmatched surroundings of The Salutation Gardens, Sandwich. As if by Magic is the theme, summoning within our walls all sorts of strange enchantments, mystical happenings and things wondrous to behold.
Presented in the afternoons, a new staging of The Magic Flute will be directed by Catrin Wyn-Davies and will include an international cast of singers from The Royal Conservatoire Den Haag making their festival debut, costumes by Dorothy Fothergill and scenography by Simon Costin. Die Kleine Zauberflöte will weave its spells around festival-goers as they picnic, providing each guest with a unique experience as they follow the action through the labyrinthine grounds, or wait for The Queen of The Night to appear before them…
In the evenings, the Festival will focus on Opera Cabaret, continuing in magical and otherworldly themes. We ask you to expect the unexpected, with liberties to be taken with much-loved pieces, and singers primed to go off piste when the spirits seize them. The performances, staged outdoors in the mid-summer dusk, will be accompanied by a suitably magical dining experience delivered by The Salutation’s award-winning kitchen team. The aromas of such delicacies will mingle with the arias in the air…
The talented team behind the Pelagian Festival will stop at nothing to make it a fabulous event, and a centrepiece of the cultural landscape for many years to come. Join them as they begin their most sonorous journey this summer, and upon your chequered blankets and at your tables drink with us a long toast to your wisdom and their great success.
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Pelagian Opera Festival
The inaugural Pelagian Opera Festival lands this summer, in the unmatched surroundings of The Salutation Gardens, Sandwich. As if by Magic is the theme, summoning within our walls all sorts of strange enchantments, mystical happenings and things wondrous to behold.
Presented in the afternoons, a new staging of The Magic Flute will be directed by Catrin Wyn-Davies and will include an international cast of singers from The Royal Conservatoire Den Haag making their festival debut, costumes by Dorothy Fothergill and scenography by Simon Costin. Die Kleine Zauberflöte will weave its spells around festival-goers as they picnic, providing each guest with a unique experience as they follow the action through the labyrinthine grounds, or wait for The Queen of The Night to appear before them…
In the evenings, the Festival will focus on Opera Cabaret, continuing in magical and otherworldly themes. We ask you to expect the unexpected, with liberties to be taken with much-loved pieces, and singers primed to go off piste when the spirits seize them. The performances, staged outdoors in the mid-summer dusk, will be accompanied by a suitably magical dining experience delivered by The Salutation’s award-winning kitchen team. The aromas of such delicacies will mingle with the arias in the air…
The talented team behind the Pelagian Festival will stop at nothing to make it a fabulous event, and a centrepiece of the cultural landscape for many years to come. Join them as they begin their most sonorous journey this summer, and upon your chequered blankets and at your tables drink with us a long toast to your wisdom and their great success.
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Pelagian Opera Festival
The inaugural Pelagian Opera Festival lands this summer, in the unmatched surroundings of The Salutation Gardens, Sandwich. As if by Magic is the theme, summoning within our walls all sorts of strange enchantments, mystical happenings and things wondrous to behold.
Presented in the afternoons, a new staging of The Magic Flute will be directed by Catrin Wyn-Davies and will include an international cast of singers from The Royal Conservatoire Den Haag making their festival debut, costumes by Dorothy Fothergill and scenography by Simon Costin. Die Kleine Zauberflöte will weave its spells around festival-goers as they picnic, providing each guest with a unique experience as they follow the action through the labyrinthine grounds, or wait for The Queen of The Night to appear before them…
In the evenings, the Festival will focus on Opera Cabaret, continuing in magical and otherworldly themes. We ask you to expect the unexpected, with liberties to be taken with much-loved pieces, and singers primed to go off piste when the spirits seize them. The performances, staged outdoors in the mid-summer dusk, will be accompanied by a suitably magical dining experience delivered by The Salutation’s award-winning kitchen team. The aromas of such delicacies will mingle with the arias in the air…
The talented team behind the Pelagian Festival will stop at nothing to make it a fabulous event, and a centrepiece of the cultural landscape for many years to come. Join them as they begin their most sonorous journey this summer, and upon your chequered blankets and at your tables drink with us a long toast to your wisdom and their great success.
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Pelagian Opera Festival
The inaugural Pelagian Opera Festival lands this summer, in the unmatched surroundings of The Salutation Gardens, Sandwich. As if by Magic is the theme, summoning within our walls all sorts of strange enchantments, mystical happenings and things wondrous to behold.
Presented in the afternoons, a new staging of The Magic Flute will be directed by Catrin Wyn-Davies and will include an international cast of singers from The Royal Conservatoire Den Haag making their festival debut, costumes by Dorothy Fothergill and scenography by Simon Costin. Die Kleine Zauberflöte will weave its spells around festival-goers as they picnic, providing each guest with a unique experience as they follow the action through the labyrinthine grounds, or wait for The Queen of The Night to appear before them…
In the evenings, the Festival will focus on Opera Cabaret, continuing in magical and otherworldly themes. We ask you to expect the unexpected, with liberties to be taken with much-loved pieces, and singers primed to go off piste when the spirits seize them. The performances, staged outdoors in the mid-summer dusk, will be accompanied by a suitably magical dining experience delivered by The Salutation’s award-winning kitchen team. The aromas of such delicacies will mingle with the arias in the air…
The talented team behind the Pelagian Festival will stop at nothing to make it a fabulous event, and a centrepiece of the cultural landscape for many years to come. Join them as they begin their most sonorous journey this summer, and upon your chequered blankets and at your tables drink with us a long toast to your wisdom and their great success.
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Pelagian Opera Festival
The inaugural Pelagian Opera Festival lands this summer, in the unmatched surroundings of The Salutation Gardens, Sandwich. As if by Magic is the theme, summoning within our walls all sorts of strange enchantments, mystical happenings and things wondrous to behold.
Presented in the afternoons, a new staging of The Magic Flute will be directed by Catrin Wyn-Davies and will include an international cast of singers from The Royal Conservatoire Den Haag making their festival debut, costumes by Dorothy Fothergill and scenography by Simon Costin. Die Kleine Zauberflöte will weave its spells around festival-goers as they picnic, providing each guest with a unique experience as they follow the action through the labyrinthine grounds, or wait for The Queen of The Night to appear before them…
In the evenings, the Festival will focus on Opera Cabaret, continuing in magical and otherworldly themes. We ask you to expect the unexpected, with liberties to be taken with much-loved pieces, and singers primed to go off piste when the spirits seize them. The performances, staged outdoors in the mid-summer dusk, will be accompanied by a suitably magical dining experience delivered by The Salutation’s award-winning kitchen team. The aromas of such delicacies will mingle with the arias in the air…
The talented team behind the Pelagian Festival will stop at nothing to make it a fabulous event, and a centrepiece of the cultural landscape for many years to come. Join them as they begin their most sonorous journey this summer, and upon your chequered blankets and at your tables drink with us a long toast to your wisdom and their great success.
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Friday unplugged: Mikaela Strömstedt
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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Friday unplugged: Phoebe & The Bear
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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Propagation: July 2019 £90
This day will focus on traditional high summer propagation techniques from semi-ripe cuttings to division of spring flowering plants and sowing seed successfully.
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How To Be A Gardener: July £90
Continuing our monthly "How To Be A Gardener" series, the head gardener will explore all the seasonal practical tasks to make your garden successful.
In July, we take a close look at using colour in the garden, greenhouses, where to put them, how to get the best from them, watering, feeding, routine plant maintenance to keep the show going into the autumn, editing in your border/garden to improve the "picture".
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Friday unplugged: Vanessa Anne Redd
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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Friday unplugged: Koostyx
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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Friday unplugged: Nick Lawrence
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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Friday unplugged: Thomas Abrahams joined by Tobias Allen
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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How To Be A Gardener: August £90
Continuing our monthly "How To Be A Gardener" series, the head gardener will explore all the seasonal practical tasks to make your garden successful.
In August, it's Right plant, Right place. Good plant selection can make the difference between a garden that's vibrant and lush, full of healthy plants and a garden full of sad unhappy plants performing poorly. We also will be looking after summer annuals, dead heading, late summer feeding of plants.
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Friday unplugged: Hannah MGF
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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Friday unplugged: Django Fandango
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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Dahlia Study Day 2019 £90
This day will look at all aspects of growing dahlia's and choosing the right dahlia for your garden and containers.
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Friday unplugged
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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Friday unplugged: Katie Bradley & Dave Ferra
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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Hardy Exotic Study Day 2019 £90
Learn the techniques and philosophy of jungle gardening.
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How To Be A Gardener: September £90
Continuing our monthly "How To Be A Gardener" series, the head gardener will explore all the seasonal practical tasks to make your garden successful.
September is tilted towards exotic plants and jungle gardening, best dahlias for the garden, propagation of tender perennials, collecting and sowing seeds fresh from plants.
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Friday unplugged: Lily Me
This summer we'll be opening up our Bar Terrace to showcase some acoustic acts. So, make yourselves comfortable, order your favourite tipples & unplug & unwind ahead of the weekend.
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Propagation: October 2019 £90
This day will focus on traditional late summer propagation techniques from cuttings of tender perennials to division of perennial plants, hard wood cuttings and sowing seed successfully.
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The Garden Convivium £2600
An incredible opportunity to enjoy a one-week residential course with our Head Gardener, Steve Edney. Learn with the master horticulturalist whilst staying in the beautiful Salutation hotel and being dined in our award-winning restaurant.
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Container Gardening 2019 £90
Create seasonal pots and containers bursting with colours, scents and structure.
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How To Be A Gardener: October £90
Continuing our monthly "How To Be A Gardener" series, the head gardener will explore all the seasonal practical tasks to make your garden successful.
This is the beginning of a real gardeners year! Preparing your garden for next spring, planting trees and shrubs, dividing early flowering perennials, protecting half hardy plants, looking critically at borders and planning changes.
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Wreath Making 2019 £60
Make your own Xmas wreath with the help of the gardeners in a traditional way.
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How To Be A Gardener: November £90
Continuing our monthly "How To Be A Gardener" series, the head gardener will explore all the seasonal practical tasks to make your garden successful.
As the last in our series, the focus this month will be on a garden's design; looking at the boundaries, hard landscaping, features in the garden and designing planting schemes for beds and borders,
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Wreath Making 2019 £60
Make your own Xmas wreath with the help of the gardeners in a traditional way.
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Edwin Lutyens