Friday 28 September 2012
Last Saturday’s ‘Domestic Bliss’ textile print workshop with local designer and maker Kate Strachan was a great success. The day was sunny and bright – always a good start! – and the students keen to roll up their sleeves and...
Monday 24 September 2012
Heading out in The Garden House garden last Saturday – the last deliciously sunny day for a while I suspect – we were struck by just how much dramatic and fiery autumn colour remains to be picked and enjoyed. The...
Saturday 15 September 2012
Pelargoniums are native to South Africa and are tender perennials – in other words, they need to be kept frost free over winter. Some of the more common bedding varieties do sometimes survive outside but the rarer types tend to...
Wednesday 12 September 2012
Having recently spent the day at the Sussex Prairie Garden plant fair and seen some fabulous plants there, I thought I should tell you about one of our favourites – Stipa gigantea – the giant oat grass. We find it...
Saturday 8 September 2012
Last Sunday the wonderful Paul and Pauline McBride invited over 60 specialist nurseries, artists and makers to set up their stalls dotted in and around the vast perennial beds that make up the Sussex Prairies landscape. On the left, Bridgette...
Monday 3 September 2012
September by Ted Hughes We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold: No clock counts this. When kisses are repeated and the arms hold There is no telling where time is. It is midsummer: the leaves hang big and...
Friday 24 August 2012
Well worth a visit – on Sunday 2 September 2011 (from 11am until 5pm) a rare collection of exciting nurseries, artists and crafts people will be coming together at the Sussex Prairies Garden. This wonderful day out offers a great chance to...
Saturday 18 August 2012
Back in June we ran a creative photography course led by local photographer and tutor Laura Dodson. A terrific day, enjoyed by all the pleasure undoubtedly came in part from slowing down and seeing the garden and its plants in...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Earlier this year we visited the amazing gardens at Arundel Castle in West Sussex. Before the present 18th Duke and Duchess moved permanently to the Castle in 1987, the gardens had been largely neglected. Over the intervening years the Duchess,...
Friday 27 July 2012
It’s just an idea, and we’re testing the water – to find out whether our lovely gardening friends out there would be interested in going on a garden-focused holiday next year? Following two very successful Garden House organised trips to...
Saturday 21 July 2012
So good to see blue skies at last, summer’s here and isnt it welcome after weeks and weeks of rain? The good thing is that most plants have survived and grown away like mad, the downside is too much lush...
Sunday 15 July 2012
Our four day long horticultural summer school in early July illustrated the great diversity to be experienced in the gardening world from the formally structured and controlled, to the wilder and seemingly uncontrolled! It was inspiring and heartening, meeting and...