Sunday 16 December 2012
Our Christmas wreaths are fat and round, Made of the woodsy things we found. We tied brown cones upon the green, And stuck red berries in between. Upon the wreath on our front door, We tied red ribbon from the...
Monday 10 December 2012
One of our favourite shopping destinations is characterful Lewes with its many delightful independent shops. Lewes is certainly worth exploring at any time of year, but with just a couple of weeks of Christmas shopping time left we find ourselves...
Sunday 2 December 2012
Our favourite festive bakers Cool Yule (the wonderful Steve Bustin and John Williams) are again baking like crazy to fulfill orders for their totally delicious Cool Yule Christmas Cakes, Bread, Jams and Chutneys. Homemade and richly delicious, all the items...
Saturday 24 November 2012
Looking for somewhere special, different and original to celebrate the festive season with a group of friends, colleagues or family either at lunchtime or in the evening? We will create for you a unique dining experience, a wonderfully festive ‘pop up’...
Monday 19 November 2012
Packing up for winter means cutting back, cleaning your pots, washing down the greenhouse, tidying your shed – and also sharpening and oiling your tools all ready for winter! Ian Swain collects and restores garden tools. He started acquiring and...
Friday 2 November 2012
If you’re booking a Garden House course or workshop why not make a weekend of it and stay at a local Brighton B&B? Garden House friend Lindy Craig-Hall and her husband have a beautiful family home (the children have all grown...
Tuesday 30 October 2012
The next best thing to being in the garden is looking at pictures of gardens. Sue Woods’ wonderful talk on Artists and Gardens introduced us to many familiar and less familiar paintings, as well as photographic records of artists and...
Tuesday 23 October 2012
One of our favourite cooks and foodie author is Nigel Slater, he of The Kitchen Diaries, Tender, Real Fast Cooking and his wonderful biography Toast: The Story of a Boys Hunger. This recipe is an easy fail-safe supper or lunch...
Sunday 14 October 2012
Is it possible to have too many watering cans? I have been looking for the perfect watering can for years and here it is! It’s simple bright green and plastic (above) – certainly not the most attractive, but so far...
Friday 12 October 2012
With the rain pattering (what’s new?) on the roof of the Garden House, Ed Ikin described “green gardening” at Nymans, the National Trust garden he heads near Handcross, West Sussex. Many of the methods he has established to ensure as...
Wednesday 3 October 2012
Our suggestion this month is the wonderful Helianthus Lemon Queen of the Asteraceae family, and common named the ‘perennial sunflower’. It is one of those plants that never fails to lift the spirits, and is irresistible to butterflies! Reassuringly it...
Monday 1 October 2012
One of our very favourite gardens Great Dixter is holding its annual Plant Fair next weekend, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October. This is a particularly special event as it includes some European nurseries that one wouldnt normally see over...