Sunday 30 June 2013
Our popular ‘hands-on’ Summer School kicks off on Monday 1 July a week of behind the scenes gardening at three inspirational gardens and nurseries. On Wednesday 3 July we’ll be heading over to the inspirational gardens at Gravetye Manor, home...
Thursday 20 June 2013
From small city centre courtyards to expansive open spaces, Brighton and Hove Open Gardens (BHOG) sees over 70 private gardens and community spaces open to the public over one weekend in June. The event raises money for The Sussex Beacon, an...
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Kate Osborne has taught watercolour painting at the Garden House but this was very different. Our group had varying experience of painting and drawing and doing both on iPads, ranging from none (me) to quite a bit, though not with...
Wednesday 12 June 2013
As part of our Plants for Places course we recently visited the allotments at Tenantry Down to get some more inspiration for creative vegetable growing. What a treat the sun was warm and the allotments were stunning – so many...
Sunday 9 June 2013
What a delightful surprise to see swathes of alliums in Hove Park this month. Earlier fields of snowdrops and rivers of golden daffodils have been followed by hundreds of alliums standing above meadow-like grass and feathery cow parsley in a...
Friday 17 May 2013
While enjoying the sunshine and spring flowers theres serious work to be done to get your garden ready for summer and one of the main tasks on the to-do list is staking! If you haven’t already done so, start staking...
Monday 13 May 2013
Having invited several of the best Sussex nurseries along to bring along many of their wonderful and often ‘hard to get hold of’ plants – trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, vegetables and succulents – to The Garden House Plant Fair, we...
Sunday 5 May 2013
Next weekend we’re joining in the spirit of the Brighton Festival, but in a uniquely Garden House way! Visit us on 11 & 12 May, 11am-6pm, for a wonderful weekend of specialist plant buying. We have invited many of the best Sussex...
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Gardeners often ask us which plants are poisonous, and you’ll find that many quite common garden plants are toxic to some degree (see our list below) however the important thing to know is that serious poisoning by plants is very...
Friday 12 April 2013
The Garden House garden is awash with spring-flowering bulbs such as Muscari, Scillas – and our favourite Chionodoxa forbesii Pink Giant all looking bright and cheerful in this very much-needed early spring sunshine! Chionadoxa means Glory of the Snow in...
Monday 8 April 2013
If you’re feeling short of inspiration following this seemingly endless cold spring, look no further than your bookshelf to spur new ideas and creative garden projects. At The Garden House our regular group of Friday gardeners gather each week to...
Monday 1 April 2013
This cold spell has thrown us a bit spring has been delayed, and it’s really been too cold to venture out and do much in the garden. But it’s all going to catch up with us as soon as the...