Monday 22 July 2013
SAVE THE DATE our friends Steve and John are having an Open Garden and Pop-Up Cafe in aid of the Parkinsons charity 28th July, I Belton Close, BN2 3RY do go along and support!...
Saturday 20 July 2013
What an unexpected bonus, following the cold spring, lots of rainfall and the recent gorgeous sunshine, our roses at The Garden House are still looking spectacular and with the sun shining on them many are beautifully fragrant! We have so...
Sunday 14 July 2013
This species has long been a favourite of ours. It has a long flowering period, from June to October, so gives great value in the garden, and it’s racemes are brilliantly coloured, from violet to purple, or white to pink....
Sunday 7 July 2013
Every summer the Garden House holds a fantastic, fun open day and auction to fund-raise for a local charity and this year we are supporting Spiral. (Read more about Spiral below…) Come along and visit the garden on Sunday 14...
Friday 5 July 2013
This is an invitation to join the now nearly famous Friday gardening group who gather weekly to garden, chat and learn an invaluable opportunity to garden throughout the year working and learning with the season in one of the most...
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...