Friday 17 June 2016
Bring a touch of tropical flair into your garden with the Hibiscus, a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, and commonly called the Rose of Sharon. Many people assume from the botanical name, Hibiscus syriacus, that they belong...
Saturday 4 June 2016
Today’s Specialist Plant Fair was a great success packed with visitors eager to buy plants from the range of perennials, shade-loving plants, succulents, alliums and so many more. This is Brighton’s unique hidden garden. Once a market garden and...
Sunday 22 May 2016
Join us for this special event at The Garden House where you will be able to buy from a variety of specialist plant stalls all in one place! Local plant nurseries will be selling all manner of shrubs, herbaceous perennials, vegetable...
Friday 20 May 2016
You may have caught a glimpse as you drive along Brighton’s main London Road, just to the North of Preston Park a glimpse of all manner of pinks, mauves, creamy whites and deepest maroons. It’s lilac time and Withdean Park...
Friday 6 May 2016
Another in our series of features highlighting just a few of our favourite gardens. Tucked away behind the elegant Chelsea facades of SW3 sits London’s secret garden, the delightful Chelsea Physic Garden, London’s oldest botanic garden. The garden is...
Sunday 1 May 2016
We recently enjoyed a visit to these beautiful gardens when they were open for the NGS (National garden Scheme) – and as the garden will be open again on 13 and 27 June, and on 8 August, we thought we...
Saturday 23 April 2016
We feel this is one of the most exciting times of year in the garden as April and May bring both the chance to see the structural forms and the potential of the colourful and productive months to come. And...
Sunday 17 April 2016
Have you been saving broken china bits and pieces ready for the day that you’ll start that mosaic masterpiece? Why not bring them along to the Garden House and be inspired by local mosaic artist Sue Samways. A mosaic will...
Saturday 9 April 2016
Opening for the National Garden Scheme and in the ‘yellow book’ – the Garden House is tucked away in the heart of the city and really is a secret garden – in Victorian times a working market garden. Always a great...
Sunday 27 March 2016
A few weeks ago we enjoyed another great talk by Rosy Hardy, founder in 1988 of the independent nursery Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants based in the beautiful Hampshire village of Freefolk near Whitchurch. The nursery specializes in growing wide range...
Monday 21 March 2016
We feel privileged and excited to be supporting this wonderful film made by GH friend Cathy Maxwell, and her colleague Sylvie Collier. The film ‘Tasting My Future’ traces the progress of a group of women refugees for whom the language...
Sunday 13 March 2016
Now is the ideal time to prepare for growth by creating structures that will support growing grasses, perennials and vegetables and the ideal materials to use are those that will blend beautifully into your plantings. At the Garden House we...