Come along to our fantastic auction!
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Come along to our Charity Auction at 6.30pm on Friday 8 July! Below is a list of some of the FANTASTIC items to be auctioned – if you are unable to come you can email us a silent bid! The...
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Come along to our Charity Auction at 6.30pm on Friday 8 July! Below is a list of some of the FANTASTIC items to be auctioned – if you are unable to come you can email us a silent bid! The...
Monday 4 July 2011
Fancy cocktails in the garden?! The Garden House would like to invite you to our annual charity event. We’ll be opening on Friday 8 July for two sessions – an afternoon of tea, scrumptious cakes and plant and craft stalls...
Friday 1 July 2011
Stanmer Park is a dedicated campus of nearby Plumpton College and specialises in a wide range of Floristry and Horticultural courses. They are holding another free information event – the event will allow visitors to see the range of facilities...
Sunday 26 June 2011
Enjoy one of our favourite cake recipes and use up your leftover poppy seeds! Ingredients: 2 oranges, zested and juiced 30g poppy seeds 100ml milk 200g butter, at room temperature 175g caster sugar 3 eggs 300g self-raising flour ½ tsp...
Wednesday 22 June 2011
If nothing gives you more pleasure than checking out other people’s gardens, then the Garden Gadabout is for you! Two weekends – 25th/26th June, and 2nd/3rd July – over 70 local gardens around the Brighton & Hove (and many beyond!)...
Thursday 16 June 2011
With the recent winds and rain, this week may be the last opportunity you have to make elderflower cordial this year. We love it – it’s so redolent of spring and it goes down well on our garden Open Days!...
Sunday 12 June 2011
At The Garden House we have a variety of geraniums in bloom, many looking fantastic and coping well with the drought – one of them is a favourite, Geranium ‘Orion’. It is planted prominently in our herbaceous beds, its striking...
Sunday 5 June 2011
As were all too aware here in the south-east, water is in really short supply and hosepipe bans almost inevitable. To be effective, its important to water your vegetables when they need it most so we thought a guide to which...
Saturday 28 May 2011
Well, 2011s Chelsea Flower Show extravaganza is over the years inspirational kick-start for new gardening ideas, plantings and structures we loved it! Cleve Wests garden for The Daily Telegraph was awarded Best Show Garden quite an accolade and well deserved,...
Thursday 19 May 2011
At the moment many members of the borage family are looking wonderful we love their simplicity, the way they flourish popping up everywhere and so easily and we love the often bright blue borage flowers, which look wonderful in salads!...
Friday 13 May 2011
The Garden House currently has a stunning display of different kinds of ornamental onions – hundreds of blooms, and flowering around three weeks early! Our mass plantings include: Allium ‘Mont Blanc’, A. hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation’ AGM, A. atropurpureum, A. nigrum, A....
Saturday 7 May 2011
If you have the energy and time to spare, set aside the coming weekends to visit the wonderful Artists Open Houses 2011 more than 1,000 artists are exhibiting their work at over 250 venues, spread across the city of Brighton...