A stately home is reopening its glorious gardens for the spring season.

Godinton House and Gardens, near Ashford, will be showing off its impressive display of seasonal bulbs as it welcomes visitors back through the gates.

The gardens, which date back to the 1800s, stretch out over 12 acres and will boast early flowering daffodils, newly plated narcissus and tulips in the flower beds.

The formal gardens were laid out by Sir Reginald Blomfield, a renowned British architect and garden designer, and feature pink, white and ruby hellebores and iris tuberosa, known as the widow iris with unusual black and green petals.

Along with the formal gardens, there is also the pond, Italian garden, walled garden, greenhouse and the 14th century house.

Godinton House and Gardens reopens today (Tuesday, March 18). The gardens are open from 12.30pm to 5.30pm and the house will be open for guided tours on Fridays and Saturdays from Friday, April 11.

Tickets for the garden only cost £10.50 for adults and £2.50 for adults. Children aged 11 or under go free.

The grand estate isn’t the only garden opening up for the spring season.

Belmont House and Gardens, just outside of Faversham, will be fully open to the public from Sunday, April 6.

The gardens, which have been designed and maintained over the past two centuries, include a walled garden, pinetum, woodland area, formal lawns and a garden kitchen.

Visitors can admire long perennial borders, rose beds and wisteria walls in the formal kitchen while the garden kitchen, restored in 2001 by Lady Arabella Lennox-Boyd, has a mix of lawn, fruit trees and shrubs.

The gardens are open daily all year round, but the 18th century house and its collections will be open from Sunday, April 6 until Tuesday, September 30 on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

The 3,000-acre estate at Chevening, near Sevenoaks, is gearing up for its spring season, with the grand opening set for Tuesday, April 1.

The historic house, which stretches between Sevenoaks and Biggin Hill, includes a maze, lake, hexagonal walled kitchen and woodland.

The gardens were first laid out between 1690 and 1720 and have since been transformed into the English formal style. In the 19th century, the lawns and parterres were introduced and the lake was created.

The Stanhope family owned the house for seven generations until it was handed over to the Historic Houses Foundation.

The gardens at Chevening will be open on Tuesdays and Fridays between 10am and 4pm from April to September. It’s free to visit with a Historic Houses membership, otherwise adult tickets cost £10.

Finally, Doddington Place in Sittingbourne is hosting an open day at the end of March ahead of its official springtime opening.

The landscaped gardens are set against the backdrop of the estate’s stunning Victorian mansion and cover 10 acres.

The woodland includes a variety of rhododendrons and azaleas, a large Edwardian rock garden with pools, a formal sunken garden and extensive lawns. There is also a folly walk and yew hedges.

The brick house was designed by Victorian architect Charles Brown Trollope and built around 1860. In 1873, the son of garden designer William Andrews Nesfield, Markham, designed the formal terrace.

The Oldfield family took over the estate and, over the past century, have reimagined the gardens but kept much of the original Edwardian spirit.

The gardens will be open to the public from Easter Sunday until the end of September, 11am to 5pm, on Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays and bank holiday Mondays.

However, the open garden will take place on Sunday, March 30 from 11am to 5pm as part of the National Garden Scheme.